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Reuters. taly's president handed Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev the keys to an Orthodox church and pilgrim hostel in Italy on Sunday, saying it could help ease a 1,000-year schism between Christianity's two biggest churches. (Read the article by Oleg Shchedrov)

The Philadelphia Inquirer. Imagine Italia - beyond stereotypes. The Philadelphia Flower Show takes you there, and to its less familiar regions. We love our Italian fantasies, and the producers of the 180-year-old Philadelphia Flower Show are counting on that. (Read the article by Ginny Smit)

REUTERS. Italy's centre-right government moved on Friday to restrict transport strikes, drawing an immediate rebuke from one of the country's biggest unions.The cabinet approved a bill to require support of at least half the workforce to call transport strikes after the country endured hundreds of stoppages in the sector last year, many of them in protest at the sale of the airline Alitalia.

"There can be no ambiguity about the right to strike and Berlusconi is taking a path which is dangerous for democracy and freedom and may harm relations between companies and workers," CGIL union boss Guglielmo Epifani said. The government says its aim is not to deprive unions of the right to strike but to ensure that crippling transport strikes are only carried out if there is majority support from workers in a sector or company, respecting rules that limit disruption. (Read the Article)

SIFI NEWS.  One of Galileo Galilei’s fingers, which is the only remaining part of the 17th century astronomer’s body, is to go on display in Italy. According to a report in the Telegraph, the finger, which is the middle digit from Galileo’s right hand, is mounted on a marble base and encased in a crystal jar. It will be among 250 objects which will go on display in Florence as part of an exhibition entitled ‘Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope,’ which opens next month in Florence. (Read the Article)