Rome— A new digital publication dedicated to promoting Italy's culture, innovation and economic excellence to international audiences was launched this week at the Foreign Press Association in Italy, with support from leading figures in tourism, exports and business.

Presented at Palazzo Grazioli in Rome, Italy Now is a cultural journalism platform publishing in eight languages and aimed at readers seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary Italy beyond the country's most famous landmarks and breaking news stories.

 ROME -- Basta, Alè: A Memoir of Body, Belonging, and Becoming is the new candid and courageous book by S.A. Sterling is a “must” for all women (and men) whose bodies do not conform to the standard model blazoned and acclaimed throughout the social media.

 With rare honesty and self-awareness, she recounts her sufferings as a chubby child growing up in northern Italy with a family of slim sisters and being subjected by her anxious and well-intentioned mother to a series of unsuccessful diets and sessions with psychologists throughout her childhood and adolescence.

 ROME -- Un grand merci to the brilliant Troupe Poly who gave a dazzling performance of Hécube, pas Hécube, a labrynthine, avant garde French version of Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy, at the Teatro Belli. The cast was spearheaded by Annabelle Couvreur as Nadia, an engaging actress whose real life turns to tragedy with the abuse of an autistic son in a Parisian institution while she is rehearsing her role as Hécube.

VATICAN CITY-During the month of Mary (May in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church), Taiwan promoted solidarity through its Embassy to the Holy See, by providing support for vulnerable youth in Rome, over 1,000 students in the Congo, and a Marian donation to the Pontifical International Marian Academy.