Saudi Arabia promised to increase output by 200,000 barrels to 9.7 million barrels a day. The Saudi's reassurances of supply increases put nary a dent in price of crude. Problems in Nigeria, where attacks last week on Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell pipelines knocked out 375,000 barrel a day of production, have negated the affects of the Saudi increase.

It's typical of George W. Bush. He goes to Saudi Arabia to get their help in our energy mess and it doesn't go so well. In fact, the headline in the Telegraph was "Oil leaps after Bush's Saudi trip." Bush's mission did not achieve its desired effect. The Saudis agreed to produce 300,000 extra barrels -- a number the report calls "token." And it's only a token if you believe that Bush had any success at all. The Saudis say that decision had already been made and that Bush's visit had no impact.

U.S. President George Bush says a modest increase in oil production by Saudi Arabia will not solve the problem of soaring gasoline prices in the United States.

A U.N. committee on women's rights claimed that polygamy in Saudi Arabia ran counter to the principle of equality between the sexes. The committee asked Saudi Arabia to end this practice.

President Bush is calling on the world's major oil-producing countries to increase their output. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports the latest comments came in Saudi Arabia, where Mr. Bush also issued another warning to Iran.

The Bush administration officially notified Congress Monday of its intention to sell sophisticated precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia. The action, coinciding with President Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia, is part of a broader U.S. effort to bolster Gulf allies in the face of a more assertive Iran. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

The president of the United States of America George W. Bush is in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah. The White House correspondent of Voice of America Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush is seeking support from Saudi Arabia for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and his tough stance on Iran.

More than two million Muslims from across the world, including Indians, on Wednesday marked the climax of the annual Haj pilgrimage by participating in the symbolic stoning of the devil in the Saudi holy city of Mina.

Saudi Arabia announced today that it has arrested 208 people with suspected ties to Al Qaeda over the last several months, with suspects belonging to as many as six different terrorist cells.

Wild baboons have invaded a district in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, making the residents life a misery, the Al-Watan newspaper said Wednesday.

A Pakistani man was beheaded on Friday. He was convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia. In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, the ministry said that Aslam Shahbaz Khan was executed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia's state oil company officials stated on Tuesday that the death toll from a national gas pipeline blast last weekend has now reached more than 40 people.