Editors: To avoid duplication, please note that all these stories are also moving in longer form. For publication on Sunday, Sept. 20. COUNTRIES MEET ON CLIMATE, BUT LACK A LEADER Economists point to powerhouse countries like India to illustrate the hurdles facing some 100 world leaders due to gather in New York this Tuesday for the highest level summit meeting on climate change ever convened. While virtually all of the largest developed and developing nations have made domestic commitments toward creating more efficient, renewable sources of energy to cut emissions, none seem willing to take the lead in fighting for significant international emissions reduction targets, lest they be accused at home of selling out future jobs and economic growth. GOOD WILL TOWARD OBAMA, BUT LITTLE TANGIBLE As President Barack Obama welcomes world leaders to the United States this week, he has gone a long way toward meeting his goal of restoring the country's international standing. Foreign counterparts flock to meet with him, and polls show that people in many countries feel much better about the United States. But nearly eight months after his inauguration, all that good will so far has translated into limited tangible policy benefits for Obama. As much as they may prefer to deal with Obama than with his predecessor, George W. Bush, foreign leaders have not gone out of their way to give him what he has sought. PAKISTAN TO CHARGE 7 MEN IN MUMBAI ATTACKS Pakistani officials this week will announce charges against seven suspects in last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the interior minister said Saturday. But he added that India must provide more evidence before Pakistan would charge the leader of a banned Islamist group who India suspects was involved in planning and financing the attacks. Pakistan has been under pressure from India to do more to try to bring those behind the attacks, in which militants attacked hotels and other targets over three days, killing 163 people. NORTH KOREA SHUTS MARKET North Korea has shut down its largest unofficial market in a sign that the Communist government was intent on quashing, or at least better controlling, market activities that it had tolerated for years, Seoul-based organizations monitoring the country said last week. The market, on the outskirts of Pyongyang, was closed sometime in June and vendors were dispersed to two or three smaller nearby markets, according to the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, or NKNet, which says it monitors the North using informants from inside the country. TUNA TOWN IN JAPAN SEES FALLOFF OF ITS FISH Fishermen in Oma, Japan, call it 'black gold,' referring to the dark red flesh of the Pacific bluefin tuna. But the number of tuna has begun dropping precipitously in recent years because of overfishing. Just a decade or two ago, each boat here could routinely catch three or four tuna a day, fishermen say. Now, they say Oma's entire fleet of 30 to 40 boats is lucky to bring in a combined total of a half-dozen tuna in a day. The problem, they say, is that all the fish are being taken by big trawlers that come from elsewhere in Japan, or farther out to sea from Taiwan or China. CAIRO AWASH IN REFUSE Cairo is facing a garbage problem so severe it has commanded the attention of the president. When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring -- in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu -- it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash. The pigs used to eat tons of organic waste. Now the pigs are gone and the rotting food piles up on the streets. 'They killed the pigs, let them clean the city,' said Moussa Rateb, a former garbage collector and pig owner, referring to government officials. SOUTH AFRICA FACE EDUCATION CHALLENGES Thousands of schools across South Africa are bursting with students who dream of being the accountants, engineers and doctors this country desperately needs, but the education system is often failing the very children depending on it most to escape poverty. Half the students never make it to 12th grade. Many who finish at rural and township schools are so ill educated that they qualify for little but menial labor or the ranks of the jobless, fueling the nation's daunting rates of unemployment and crime. 