  Solving the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation directly in Minkowski space
is becoming a very alive field, since, in recent years, a new approach has been
introduced, and the reachable results can be potentially useful in various
areas of research, as soon as the relativistic description of few-body bound
systems is relevant. A brief review of the status of the novel approach, which
benefits from the consistent efforts of different groups, will be presented,
together with some recent results.
