Apple Launches New Macbook Air – At Apple’s keynote today, it was all about the Mac. “What would happen if a Macbook met an iPad?” asked Steve Jobs. “An iPad has instant-on. Great battery life, amazing standby time, solid state storage, and it’s thinner and lighter. What would happen if a Mac and an iPad hooked up?” Meet the latest version of the Macbook Air, a super thin computer (just .68 inch at its thickest point) that Jobs called “the future of notebooks.” [fastcompany]

Spice Surrounding New Age Resignations – The media sector has been buzzing with speculation about the reasons why five senior editorial staff at the New Age newspaper simultaneously quit their jobs on Tuesday, a day before the paper was due to launch. News of the resignations first trickled in on Tuesday evening, but by Wednesday local newspapers and even the BBC were covering the story. [mail&guardian]

Did Angelina Do An Interview Coked-Up? – A man claiming to be Angelina Jolie’s old drug dealer gave an interview to Life & Style. Among his accusations: She did a Charlie Rose interview high on cocaine. Here’s video of the interview—does this woman seem high? Angelina gave this interview to promote Girl, Interrupted. [gawker]

Scientists Pinpoint The Farthest Galaxy – Astronomers have confirmed that an incredibly faint galaxy in the constellation Fornax is the most distant known object in the universe, shining more than 13 billion light-years away and reflecting an era when stars were just beginning to emerge from a cosmic fog. The galaxy, known as UDFy-38135539, is one of several super-distant objects picked out from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the most sensitive snapshot ever taken of deep space. [msnbc]

Beyonce Has A Bun In The Oven – Singer Beyonce Knowles and her rapper husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child, US Weekly magazine reported on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Beyonce was surprised to learn she is in her first trimester of the pregnancy. She had wanted to finish another album but was overjoyed, the U.S. magazine said. [yahoo]

Chile Miner Had Another Mistress – Yonni Barrios, 50, was found to have been unfaithful to his wife, Marta Salinas, when his mistress, Susana Valenzuela, came forward during his 69-day ordeal. Mr Barrios was met by Miss Valenzuela when he emerged from the mine underneath the Atacama Desert last week. His wife stayed away. Miss Valenzuela said on Tuesday that she has had to fight off advances from a 25-year-old woman who was also romanced by Mr Barrios. [telegraph]

Saudi Prince Guilty Of Servant’s Murder – A Saudi prince who beat and strangled his servant to death at the culmination of a campaign of “sadistic” abuse is facing a life sentence after being convicted of murder. Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, a grandson of the billionaire king of Saudi Arabia, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of killing Bandar Abdulaziz at their five-star hotel suite in central London. [guardian]

Kazakhstan Making Unofficial Borat Sequel – When Borat arrived and was a huge, smash hit around the world… the people of Kazakhstan weren’t happy. Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional character was a Kazakh and his portrayal of the country was hilariously horrible and Kazakhstan became an international punchline. So now, in a weird revenge plot, they’re trying to get 20th Century Fox to sue them by making an unofficial, unauthorized sequel to Borat called My Brother, Borat. [cinemablend]

China Still Indulging In Forced Abortions – China’s one-child policy, long a staple of its public policy for urban, ethnic Han Chinese, officially exists on the national level as a series of monetary incentives for those who hold to it and monetary punishments for those who run afoul. Numerous interviews and investigations, however, consistently uncover the policy as it is often applied: through forced, sometimes very late-term, abortions. [newser]

Marky Mark Working On Spy Drama Series – Entourage creator Mark Wahlberg and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell are two members of the executive-producing team that will be creating a Cold War spy drama for HBO. The show, set in Berlin, “centers on a missionary who becomes involved in the C.I.A..” According to Vanity Fair, “it’s clear that both Wahlberg and Gladwell wield significant creative influence.” [vanityfair]

Be Careful When Your Phone Falls In The Toilet – A little advice: If you drop your phone in the toilet, think twice before going after it. Otherwise you could end up like this man in China who did that and had to be rescued by firemen. On television.The man in this video dropped his phone and it disappeared down the little hole, so we went shoulder-deep trying to get it back. 10 minutes and a few crowbars later he was freed. And now he’s all over Chinese television. [gizmodo]

Michael Schumacher’s Title-Winning 1994 Benetton F1 Car Up For Grabs – Calling all the super rich Schumacher fans! The mint-condition car Michael Schumacher won his first championship in has now turned up on JamesList for a whopping €1.5 million (about $2,087,500 at the time of writing). This is the original Formula 1 Benetton-Ford F1 B194-8 driven by the F1 legend when he won his first world championship in 1994 in Adelaide, Australia. Park that outside Caprice! [bornrich]

Sex.com Sells For $13 Million – A Caribbean corporation agreed to pay $13 million to buy Sex.com from its bankrupt owner. The domain changed hands in 2004 for $12 million. So while sex might sell, it apparently doesn’t appreciate. Personally I think it would be brilliant to buy it and put up a static page with pictures of kittens. That would confuse Google a bit, I’m sure. [valleywag]

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