International Swimming Association Blocks Lance Armstrong From Competing – Lance Armstrong, who is serving a lifetime ban from Olympic sports because of serious doping violations, planned to return to athletic competition this week at a masters swimming event that does not test its athletes for drugs. That didn’t happen. [nytimes]

Watch The First Ad For Facebook’s New ‘Home’ Phone Vibe [Video] – Facebook has dropped its first ad for Home, which it is calling a “whole new experience for your phone.” The 60-second ad above takes a page from Apple’s playbook and presents Home as an un-scary technology that puts people first. [mashable]

‘Traumatised’ Pistorius Not Back To Official Training, Uncle Says – Oscar Pistorius is “not back on any official training program,” his uncle said Thursday, rejecting media reports that the Olympic and Paralympic athlete accused of murder in his girlfriend’s February shooting death was preparing to race again. [cnn]

US Base On Standby As North Korea Moves Missile To The Coast – North Korea has taken a concrete military step by moving a missile with “considerable range” to its east coast, South Korea’s Defence minister has said. [telegraph]

China Is Incentivising Citizens To Have Sea Burial, Rather Than Land – With a shortage of land, Chinese officials are paying some hefty cash incentives to convince the population to have their ashes spread into the ocean. Up to $1,290 a shot. [washpo]

A Family In Texas Sold Their Porsche For 300 Bitcoins – A father and son from Austin say they’ve just sold their 2007 Porsche Cayman S for approximately 300 Bitcoins, which comes to $39,000. [busins]

ANC Flips, As DA Claims The Government “Lied” About Why South African Soldiers Were Sent To CAR – A row broke out in Parliament on Thursday when the clearly outraged ANC chairperson of the the committee, Jerome Maake, said Maynier must “not be mischievous” and make a statement that impunes the government. [mail&guardian]

Here’s the Coolest Photo Yet of Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo in Flight – Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has made its first flight in months, which is noteworthy both because they tested the nitrous system on board and because Sir Richard Branson’s PR people provided a really cool photo of the glider passing by the moon. [wired]

‘Harlem Shake’ Hits 1 Billion Views in 40 Days – “Harlem Shake,” the love-it-or-hate-it dance craze that swept the Internet earlier this year, has hit 1 billion views after just 40 days, according to researcher Visible Measures. [mashable]

Majority Of America Support Legalisation Of Weed – For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana. A national survey finds that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45% say it should not. [peopress]–

New ‘No Ball’ In Cricket – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20s) that instructs the umpires to call ‘no ball’ whenever a bowler breaks the non-striker’s wicket during the act of delivery. [news24]

Courtney Love In New Ad For E-Cigarettes – The Hole frontwoman is currently starring in an advert for Njoy e-cigarettes. Wearing a pink gown, she takes a drag from the cigarette and says: “Relax, it’s a fucking Njoy”, when lambasted for smoking at a posh indoor event. The Hole song ‘Celebrity Skin’ then starts playing. [nme]

Chelsea Handler and Conan O’Brien Have Naked Slap Fest – At the end of the day, nothing is funnier than naked people slapping each other. It’s just the truth. It’s juvenile, it’s a little embarrassing, but goddamn if it isn’t hilarious. All those…parts. Just…jiggling around. [laist]

Jada Pinkett On Will Smith Open Relationship Rumor: ‘Will Is His Own Man’ [VIDEO] – Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith must know the secret to a successful marriage. The two have been married for nearly 16 years — an eternity in Hollywood — and are still going strong. Rumors have claimed the key to that success is an open relationship. [huffers]

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