WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday night that President Bush came up short in his State of the Union address.

BEIJING, June 14 (UPI) -- China has substantially softened its stand on Taiwan, playing down its long-standing intention to recover the island by force if necessary, it was reported.

LONDON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Status Quo singer/guitarist Rick Parfitt received the best possible news from doctors Wednesday -- the growths on his larynx are not cancer.

PLYMOUTH, England, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Veteran British rockers Status Quo have canceled all concerts while guitarist Rick Parfitt undergoes treatment for a growth on his larynx.

BEIJING, April 29 (UPI) -- Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang Party on Taiwan called for maintaining the status quo across the Taiwan Strait in a speech Friday in Beijing.

SINGAPORE, April 22 (UPI) -- The United States says it would welcome a mutually acceptable change in the current strained relations between Taiwan and China. Speaking at a conference jointly organized by the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and the Center on International