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After 16 years with the World Bank, William Easterly writes about the failures and shortcomings of development policy and practices by Western dominated organizations like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, USAID and the United Nations.

Ghost, Inc. is an Israeli-Palestinian company that provides a free, web-based virtual computer that lets users access their desktop and files from any computer with an Internet connection. Ghost is an acronym for Global Hosted Operating System.

Last year, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian Territories. Following, Israel pulled out its military and civilian presence from the territory. A report from the NY Times describes life in Gaza towards the end of 2007.

The over 40 leaders from Muslim countries meeting in Dakar, Senegal wrapped a two-day summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) last Friday.

Heads of state and representatives of over 40 Muslim nations gathered today in Dakar, Senegal for the Eleventh Session of the Islamic Summit Conference.

Terry Gross from NPR interviewed two individuals last night who used to fight against each other and who are now trying to end the violence between Israel and Palestine by bringing together people who, like themselves, used to fight each other.

The Economist is running a story on some of the challenges with finding solutions to Middle East conflicts. The problems are tightly interlinked - the flare-up in Gaza made it more difficult to resolve a constitutional crisis in Lebanon, for example.