Terrifying doorbell camera video showed how a wide-eyed masked teenager dressed like a clown appeared to go door-to-door before being arrested in connection with an elderly neighbor's murder.

The Illinois State Police said officers had responded to an intersection in East St Louis on Monday shortly after 10pm after reports of a body in the road.

A 15-year-old, whose identity was not disclosed, was taken into custody on Tuesday as part of a homicide investigation.

The victim was identified as John Wesley Allen Sr, 78, by the St Clair County Coroner, according to FirstAlert4.

Less than an hour before police arrived, the teen was seemingly captured peering into a local Ring camera. The footage was shared by East St Louis resident Lora Palmer, who said the camera belonged to her mom.

In a hushed tone, the masked suspect appeared to whisper either 'I have a gift for you' or 'I've been looking for you.' 

The teenager was quickly identified and found at a home, according to state police.

Illinois State Police said that 'video footage of the suspect

A former Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism scandal once claimed he was awarded an MBE in an interview he later asked to be scrubbed from the web, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Jason Arday resigned on Wednesday from the university, where he had become a poster boy for diversity as its youngest ever black professor, after an investigation was launched into dubious claims on his CV.

It followed an avalanche of revelations about seemingly tall tales from the 41-year-old's past, as well as allegations he had copied parts of his PhD from another student.

The latest bizarre development earlier today involved claims he was paid '1.4million' for his memoirs.

The saga now threatens to overshadow the expected publication next week of his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, which describes how he overcame autism so severe it left him non-verbal until the age of 11 to rise to the top of academia.

Yet one particularly extraordinary episode from his life does not feature anywhere in the book, despite Professor Arday once talking about it on a podcast: being awarded, but apparently declining, an MBE.

In a 2023 interview with the Before Our Friends Die podcast, he described

If you walked past her in the neighborhood where she lives, you'd probably just mistake the woman headed to lunch with friends as a pleasant, well-to-do local.

But there are subtle clues to this unassuming fifty-something's real identity as one of the world's most famous female rock stars, who was last photographed in public in 2009.

The long, jet black hair. The black and white striped Breton top. The $1,500 Gucci purse. And the Ford car with a red, black and white paint job.

For this is Meg White, one half of The White Stripes – and one of the most loved but mysterious female rock stars of all time.

Meg, now 51, enjoyed huge success with her ex-husband Jack White in the 2000s, with the couple's career only taking off after their four year marriage ended three months into the new millennium.

Her drumming was initially panned as primitive by music critics, only for Meg's skills to later become revered and praised as ahead of their time. 

A cyber-security expert has warned parents that their children could become criminal perpetrators of sadistic acts of violence through socialising online.

Several online groups – largely consisting of minors – which celebrate child sexual abuse, violence for its own sake and other 'shock' material have come to the attention of international authorities over the past number of years.

Known collectively as 'The Com' and often claiming satanic ideologies, some of the more popular sub-networks include 764, No Lives Matter and Maniacs Murder Cult.

Gardaí and Tusla have confirmed they have identified cases associated with the network in Ireland.

Members often use popular games like Roblox and Minecraft to make contact with other minors – targeting vulnerable children – then lure them over to platforms like Discord, Telegram and Twitch.

Sometimes a child is tricked into sending compromising images, believing themselves to be friends or in a relationship with their tormentor, before they are coerced into committing sadistic acts of violence including self-mutilation on camera, against the threat of their initial images being shared.

Forcing victims to cut words – including their tormentor's name – into their flesh or write on walls with

President Donald Trump signed two executive actions on Thursday to crack down on 'birth tourism' in the US and to restrict citizenship from being granted to the children of foreign diplomats.

Birth tourism is a practice where pregnant mothers travel to the states to give birth and ensure their children are granted US citizenship. 

'They're buying their way in, and we're not going to let it happen,' Trump said in the Oval Office, announcing the new policies. 

'We're making adjustments because it's very unfair,' the President said of the practice. 

The executive orders, which will likely bring on legal challenges, are the President's second attempt to alter the 14th Amendment's guarantee that almost every child born in the US is automatically granted citizenship. 

The Supreme Court struck down an effort in late June from the Trump administration to deny citizenship to children born to noncitizens within the US. 

The President signed an order to end birthright citizenship for children of noncitizens on the first day of his second term. 

'We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright [citizenship]... so we're

Hundreds of killers are expected to be released early from prison under Labour's soft justice scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Up to 363 offenders convicted of manslaughter could walk free from jail by 2029 after serving as little as one third of the sentence handed down by a court, according to a new analysis.

Among those due to benefit from the Government's measures include two of the killers of Pc Andrew Harper, whose widow Lissie this week condemned Labour's plan as 'unforgivable'.

The Conservatives used official sentencing figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to estimate how Labour's reforms will affect all killers who have been jailed for manslaughter.

Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said: 'Vile killers, like those responsible for Pc Harper's death, should not be freed from prison early.

'Letting hundreds of these dangerous killers back on the streets puts the public at risk and is an insult to the memory of their victims.

'Labour must back our proposal and introduce emergency legislation on the first day Parliament returns to keep these killers behind bars where