This seems to be Rudolph's Christmas.

The post office in this tiny central Wisconsin village that shares the name with the most famous reindeer of all has seen an uptick in business this season.

Police in Germany are looking for a missing pigeon, and any finder could be in line for a 10,000-euro ($12,250) reward.

Duesseldorf police said Tuesday that the 6-year-old male homing pigeon, named AS 969, was stolen at some point on Saturday night from a locked aviary in the city's suburbs.

The Rhode Island church where John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in 1953 will be commemorating the wedding.

The Newport Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/IX5CGL ) that a presentation highlighting the wedding, titled "A Return to Camelot: A Remembrance of Jackie and JFK's Wedding Day" is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Church.

Israel's antitrust authority is challenging the ownership structure of the country's natural gas resources, a decision that could rattle an increasingly important industry.

A U.S.-Israeli conglomerate has been developing most of Israel's offshore natural gas deposits. It sells gas to the Israeli market and has agreed to sell to neighboring countries as well.

The USS Enterprise is about to get a little faster. "Fast & Furious" director Justin Lin is taking the helm of the third installment in Paramount's rebooted "Star Trek" franchise.

Lin's rep confirmed the news Monday.

At times, waterboarding rendered al-Qaida terror suspect Abu Zubaydah hysterical. But later, a message to CIA headquarters described an interrogator merely lifting his eyebrow and snapping his fingers, and Zubaydah "slowly walked on his own to the water table" to lie down.

The Senate's torture report describes how the CIA's harsh interrogation program sought to make detainees passive and powerless to resist, using techniques from sleep deprivation to stress positions to waterboarding to induce a state that psychologists call "learned helplessness." ''Compliant," was the interrogators' description of Zubaydah.

The Food and Drug Administration is building a legal case against companies that sell pure powdered caffeine, which can be fatal even in small doses.

The FDA warned consumers to avoid pure powdered caffeine this summer after the death of an Ohio teen. Some major retailers have stopped selling it in bulk, but the substance is still widely available on the Internet and in some stores.

A spokesman for boxing great Muhammad Ali says the former heavyweight champion's condition has "vastly improved" since he was admitted to a hospital with a mild case of pneumonia during the weekend.

Ali spokesman Bob Gunnell said Monday that Ali's doctors hope to discharge him soon from the hospital where he was admitted on Saturday.

Bright colors, strange clothes and a striking white mask steal the attention of everyday people going about their business in downtown Cairo. This is the stage for Mohammed Saeed (aka Sheetos) who is waging a lonely campaign to introduce the art of mime to modern Egypt.

"I know I look like the strangest thing in their eyes. But I do this to publicize this art. I believe in this art," said Saeed, 21. "I try to help people smile during their difficult lives. My wish is to draw smiles on faces."

Cars. Fishing boats. Houses. Entire villages. The 2004 tsunami left Banda Aceh with mountains of debris up to 6 kilometers (4 miles) inland.

Driving in the remade communities today, it's easy to wonder where it all went. Some of it is still there — recycled into road materials, buildings and furniture. Some of it was burned, creating new environmental hazards. And most of it was simply washed out to sea.