Christian Bale "freaked out" his daughter by keeping his accent for "Public Enemies" off set. The British actor plays U.S. FBI officer Melvin Purvis in the 1930s gangster film and in preparing for his role kept a strong southern U.S. accent throughout filming.

The film's director, Michael Bay, said: "Melvin Purvis was really a southern gentleman. So Christian kept the accent for 24 hours a day. It freaked out his young daughter. She said: 'Daddy doesn't talk like that!' he replied: 'Well, ah'm sorry, mah dear, but daddy's studying for a part, and ah'll be speaking like this for the next four months.'"

Chinese researchers may have developed an injectable male contraceptive that is reversible and has few serious side effects, according to a report published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The contraceptive is a combination of testosterone in tea seed oil. Chinese researchers conducted a study of 1,045 Chinese men between the ages of 20 and 45, in which each man had fathered at least one child. Each of the men had sexual partners between the ages of 18 and 38 years old.

An 18th century Chinese royal seal has reignited debate over stolen relics. Cultural officials in China were enraged when a French auction house sold the priceless antiquity at a sale in Paris Wednesday.

The winning bid was more than $590,000.

A confused teen opened a birthday present from his mom, only to find the Nintendo DS box stuffed with rocks and Chinese newspapers.

Tampa mom Jodi Wykle played a little birthday prank on her son, giving him the Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS, even though he didn't have a DS yet. Next, she gave him another box, this one with a Nintendo DS in it-or so she thought.

Researchers discovered the ancient Great Wall of China is almost 200 miles longer than previously thought.

Previous estimates calculated that the ancient barrier stretched for about 4,500 miles across the Chinese countryside, but modern mapping techniques have revealed another 180 miles, according to the United Kingdom's The Times.