President Barack Obama raced from one impromptu meeting to another and made an animated plea for compromise Friday, making plain his frustration over the difficulty of pushing world leaders to settle on a plan to combat global warming. "We are running short on time," Obama told the 193-nation summit as the clock was running out on its final day. "There has to be movement on all sides." Working into the night and putting his departure time in question, Obama scheduled a second one-on-one meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao after an earlier session of nearly an hour. Officials said the two men made a step forward in their talks, but the degree of progress was not clear.

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