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Dubai Promises Record-Breaking New Year's Eve Firework Show

Dubai has promised to celebrate New Year's Eve with a record-breaking extravaganza featuring over 400,000 fireworks, the largest display the world has ever seen, its government said.

The United Arab Emirates city state, home to the world's tallest tower, largest man-made island and one of the world's busiest airports, will "break the Guinness World Record for the 'Largest Firework Display'," a government statement said.

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Federer Says Another Child on the Way in '14

Already in the swing of parenting, Roger Federer is getting ready for a larger family.

The tennis star says on Twitter that he and his wife, Mirka, are expecting another child next year.

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Ralph Fiennes Reveals other Dickens in 'Invisible Woman'

For his second film as director, British actor Ralph Fiennes lifts the cover on a little-known secret about classic English author Charles Dickens: his decade-long adulterous affair with a young actress.

Fiennes, a Shakespearean actor who made his debut behind the camera with 2011's "Coriolanus," used a 1990 biography as the basis for "The Invisible Woman," on limited release from Wednesday in the United States.

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Miley was Our 2013 Pop-Culture Queen

A year ago, Miley Cyrus was no stranger to us, of course. But who could have guessed how her star would rise — or rather, explode — in 2013, making this former preteen idol one of the most watched people on the planet? And so it seems only right to make Miley our tour guide (Kim and Kanye, you came close!) as we take our annual, highly selective, chronological tour through the year's pop culture moments:

JANUARY

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Ben Stiller Dreams of a Shift with 'Mitty'

Ben Stiller's commonality with the hero of his new film hasn't gone unnoticed.

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," starring and directed by Stiller, is adapted from James Thurber's classic short story that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1939. Since then, Walter Mitty (a mild-mannered man who enlivens a mundane day with a series of fantasies) has been synonymous with daydreaming and flights of imagination.

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Marty and Leo Team Up again for 'Wolf'

"Anything goes" was the guiding ethos for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio in making their extravagant dark comedy of Wall Street excess, "The Wolf of Wall Street."

"We would look at each other and ask, 'Are we going too far?'" says DiCaprio. Rarely was the answer "yes."

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'Fast & Furious 7' Delayed Until April 2015

Universal Pictures has delayed the release of "Fast & Furious 7" for almost a year following the death of star Paul Walker.

The studio announced Monday that the "Fast & Furious" sequel will be released in April 2015, instead of July. Shooting on the film was about halfway finished when the 40-year-old Walker died in a car crash outside of Los Angeles.

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With Selfies, the World Turns the Camera on Itself

Stuck on a ledge halfway up a 3,000-foot (1,000-meter) cliff in Oman, his climbing rope sliced in two by sharp rocks, Jimmy Chin did what anyone else would have done in his predicament.

He took a selfie.

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Lawrence Beats Cyrus, Netflix for Top Entertainer

The battle for AP entertainer of the year came down to the Girl on Fire and the Queen of Twerk.

Jennifer Lawrence edged out Miley Cyrus by one vote in The Associated Press' annual survey of its newspaper and broadcast members and subscribers for Entertainer of the Year.

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'Hobbit' Stays on Top at N. America Box Office

The latest installment of the Tolkien series, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," retained the top spot at the North American box office this weekend, according to industry estimates Sunday.

The second part of The Hobbit film trilogy, starring Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman, earned $31.5 million on its second weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

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