France's anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader.

Jean-Marie Le Pen has confirmed that the party base has been purchased by a Shanghai university.

Mr Le Pen, 79, has campaigned to become president several times under the slogan "Keep France for the French".

But his party faces growing financial difficulties. It has already sold its bullet-proof car on eBay.

The party has a total debt of some 9m euros ($13.4m; £7m), according to French newspaper Le Monde, partly due to a poor showing in the 2007 legislative elections which meant it had to cover its own campaign costs.

Going on the wrong track, I saw the reason: at our next scheduled stop, there was the fast train I didtched, and under its last car, a black bag covering both sides of the rail.

English talks of suicide victims, but I am thinking of those jumping ahead of trains as suicide culprits. I grumbled to myself. But this may have been an accident.

At home, I read that the driver of that fast train only noticed the corpse, s/he must have been ran over by the preceding freight train.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

I am not retiring. Yet.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time - prompting a wave of excitement over who, or what, might have sent it. The signal is the most significant of its kind since radio telescopes started operating in the 1960s.