Saudi king needed help breathing due to lung infection, condition stable

Saudi Arabia's elderly monarch was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, state media said.

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud speaks before a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not pictured) at his private residence in the Red Sea city of Jeddah

(photo credit: REUTERS)

ByREUTERS

JANUARY 2, 2015 18:52

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