President Obama arrives in Saudi Arabia

President Barack Obama is in Saudi Arabia after an overnight flight from Washington.
   
Mr. Obama is planning to meet with Saudi King Abdullah to discuss a host of thorny problems, from Arab-Israeli peace efforts to Iran’s nuclear program. The surge in oil prices also was on the agenda.
   
The president was to stay overnight at the king’s horse farm in the desert outside Riyadh before heading to Egypt.
   
The talks with the monarch come a day before the president is to deliver a highly anticipated speech in Cairo on the U.S. relationship with the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.