With the second and third airplanes in final assembly, Boeing will be hopeful the second version will have a smoother entry to market than the first.
Reports claim that some Libyan oil exports, stopped due to strikes and civil unrest, might soon resume.
The US tech giant is also expected to unveil a new cheaper version of the device next month.
The US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen will remain closed due to security concerns.
The network is due to launch on August 20.
The phone calls from the US president came on a day when the UAE and Saudi offered $8 billion in aid to Cairo.
The U.S. is not prepared to label the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the government as a coup, a move that would determine if aid to the country would continue.
The top U.S. diplomat has met both Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Al Jazeera America, with headquarters in New York, plans to launch in late-August this year.
The plane, operated by United Airlines, was flying from Houston to Denver in the U.S. when it was forced to turn around and land back at its origin.
Senior Afghan officials had accused Washington on Wednesday of breaking assurances to Kabul.
A team of U.S. negotiators arrived in Qatar earlier on Wednesday and held a meeting with Afghan diplomats in the Qatari capital.
Both Washington and Amman said on Sunday the Eager Lion exercises were not related to the war in Syria.
Prince Alwaleed has attacked the U.S. magazine’s ranking of world billionaires as flawed and biased against Middle Eastern businesses.
Spot gold rose 0.5 per cent to $1,406.26 an ounce, after falling 0.9 per cent on Tuesday due to new import rules imposed by India.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed the news in Ottawa.
Qatar last month proposed that the organization leave Montreal due to its cold winters and distance from Europe and Asia.
The Canadian visa waiver announced earlier this year has still not come into effect, confirmed embassies.
The U.S. Secretary of State met Oman’s defence minister in the Sultanate on Wednesday to oversee the $2.1 billion deal.
Sheikh Mansour-owned City will be the majority partner in New York City Football Club along with the biggest name in baseball, the Yankees.
The boards of both companies have reportedly approved the deal, expected to be announced on Monday.
Centrica and QPI said in April they would buy Suncor Energy Inc’s gas business in Canada for C$1 billion ($986.73 million) in their first acquisition.
US shale oil will help meet most of the world’s new oil demand in the next five years, says International Energy Agency.
Under the deal, the companies would send up to 15.6 million tonnes of LNG each year to their South Hook terminal in Wales from the Golden Pass plant in Texas.
The U.S. Labour Department issued a report in December, some 20 months after the general strike, that faulted the Bahrain government for the actions it took.
Last year, an international arbitrator told Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries to pay up for pulling out of a K-Dow joint venture in 2008.
Emirates and Qatar Airways are expected to be among the first and possibly biggest customers for Boeing’s latest aircraft.
The social networking site generated mobile advertising revenues of almost $375 million during the first quarter.
KSA’s oil minister said it is good news that U.S. crude output has jumped to the highest level in around 20 years.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi is giving a major energy speech in the US on Tuesday.