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Bored with your default wine choice when you get home? Then try a vermentino from Italy or France. “The good ones have something of the lemon meringue pie about them but in a non-sweet way,” says Helen McGinn, whose first book, The Knackered Mother's Wine Club, is published in February.

After panettone vs pandoro, in these days, in Italy, there’s a new challenge, the one between sausages and pig’s trotters. It seems that Italians prefer the first one, by the way, we are talking about two equal historical dishes (porks’meat called in Italy “zampone” was invented by a chef in 1511!) really loved in Bel Paese. But it’s not all: in Italy, make a chose  between one of the two recipes is really important and,  in very way, they both have to be accompanied by lentils. The reason? Alwalys in Italy, they bring “good luck“. Finally, in Italian tradition also eating grapes and pomegranate is foundamental to begin at the best 2013, but this is another story… 

Italian neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986 died at her home in Rome. She was 103. Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, has died at her home in the city. She was 103. 

 The abandoned university building on the outskirts of Rome, colloquially known as Salaam Palace, was once a sparsely populated makeshift shelter where new arrivals from Africa — fleeing war, persecution and economic turmoil — squatted to create their own refuge.