Stoke v Liverpool reaction

The Reds boss was unhappy with a number of incidents in their 1-0 reverse at Stoke, their first Premier League defeat of the season.

Jon Walters' 20th-minute penalty was one of those, although Liverpool had a number of claims for a spot-kick turned down by referee Mark Clattenburg, with the most valid when Luis Suarez's cross late in the game hit the arm of Matthew Upson.

And while many other Premier League managers would come out ranting and raving and firing off complaints to the Professional Game Match Game Officials Limited Dalglish wants to take a more considered approach and will consult with principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner of Fenway Sports Group.

"We would like to be respectful to referees - and I'd like to think I have been - but more importantly than being respectful to the referees is having respect for my football club," he said.

"If I feel they are suffering in any shape or form I will need to go the same route other people go and see if we can gain some benefit from that.

"The first four league games have had contentious decisions in them and every one has gone against us.

"I'll speak to the owners first and see what they say because the last thing I want to do is for my behaviour to impinge on the club's success in any way."

Unlike many top-flight counterparts Dalglish stressed he had no issues with the way Stoke had played and praised their determination and resilience.

But he felt his side should have got more from a match they dominated and said he did not think Jamie Carragher had fouled Walters for the spot-kick.

"I think it is a bit of an understatement to say we deserved something from the game," added the Scot.

"We can only do what we can do ourselves, sometimes other things are taken outside your jurisdiction.

"If we continue to play with the same attitude and commitment then we will be okay this season.

"But if we continually get battered by things outside of our control we are not going to get much chance.

"We don't have any complaint about Stoke; they played hard and played well, they got the goal and defended courageously at times and maybe at times they got a bit of luck.

"We don't have anything but appreciation for the way they played and the way they held on to win the game.

"There is nothing for me to say which is anything other than complimentary to Tony and Stoke. But I just cannot see how it is a penalty kick."

Stoke boss Tony Pulis, understandably, took a counter view to Dalglish.

"I think Kenny will be as biased [to his team] as I am to Stoke," he said.

"I respect his opinion and whether the decisions were (less than impartial) or not I don't know.

"We were pretty poor in possession of the ball and we are better than that but we were top drawer off the ball.

"We stopped them playing, although I thought Suarez up front was fantastic."

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EU forces rescue Frenchwoman from pirates off Yemen

A French hostage has been rescued from pirates off Yemen and her captors detained but a second hostage remains missing, EU defence officials say.

Spanish troops operating with the EU's anti-piracy force, Navfor, intercepted a skiff on Saturday, two days after the hostage's catamaran was found.

The hostage was freed and all the suspected pirates detained, Navfor said in a statement.

Spain's defence ministry said seven pirates had been detained.

The Spanish warship SPS Galicia had tracked the skiff after Navfor received a distress call from the catamaran, which was found abandoned.

After the skiff ignored an order to stop, the commander of the Galicia ordered his men to open fire, and a naval warfare team fired on the boat's engine to disable it.

The skiff was subsequently sunk, the Spanish defence ministry was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

Navfor said the freed hostage had not been wounded or injured during the operation, and all the suspected pirates had been detained unharmed.

Somali pirates have targeted shipping, both commercial and pleasure craft, off the Horn of Africa for years.

They currently hold at least 30 vessels and their crews, keeping them moored along the coast of the war-torn country, which has not had a functioning government for two decades.

BBC

Michael Fassbender becomes the talk of Venice

Throughout the duration of the 68th Venice Film Festival, there were two words on the lips of every critic: Michael Fassbender.

The 34 year-old actor, who was born in Germany and grew up in the Republic of Ireland, starred in two competition films at the festival - David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and a British film - Steve McQueen's Shame.

It's for the latter, in which he plays a successful New Yorker struggling with sex addiction, that he's been awarded a Golden Lion for Best Actor.

It was the most popular choice of the evening, as even the press room, full of hard-to-please critics, erupted into cheers.

This has been Fassbender's breakthrough year into the mainstream - so far the actor has played the young Magneto in X-Men: First Class and portrays Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre.

But a win at Venice is often a fast track to awards season nominations - both Helen Mirren for The Queen and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler are previous recipients of this acting prize.

"It's really nice when you've taken a chance on a film and you hope the subject is relevant," Fassbender said as he collected his award.

"Steve McQueen is my hero."
UK success

Shame is a controversial film which will shock some audiences.

Fassbender is naked, physically and emotionally, as he struggles with his addictions and his inability to form relationships. His sister, played by Carey Mulligan, is the only human he can relate to.
Michael Fassbender with Shame director Steve McQueen at the Venice Film Festival Fassbender and McQueen first worked together on 2008's Hunger

Yet some critics claim that in the hands of British artist and director McQueen, pornography is transformed into art - and the movie won a seven minute standing ovation at its world premiere in Venice.

It's already been sold in the USA.

The director and actor have a close relationship after making another arthouse hit, Hunger, together in 2008.

"I would only have made this film with Michael Fassbender," McQueen declared. "No other actor would have had the capability of doing it."

Fassbender's award is a critical endorsement for Shame.

Associated Press reporter Sheri Jennings described it as "the buzz film of the festival".

Yet it didn't win the Golden Lion for Best Film which went to Russian director Alexander Sokurov's Faust.

But it's another hit for the now defunct UK Film Council, which part-funded the movie, giving Steve McQueen carte blanche to do exactly as he wished.

It also gave money to another British film that scooped an award at Venice, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights.

Arnold's long-term director of photography, Robbie Ryan, won best cinematography for the film, where the Yorkshire landscape was described as "another character".

Wuthering Heights also received a long standing ovation at its premiere.

It offers a less traditional version of the classic book, with little dialogue. Arnold cast teenagers who had never acted before in the roles of Cathy and Heathcliff.

Shame and Wuthering Heights may have been the only British films to win accolades at Venice, but the festival director Marco Mueller claimed "if there is a national cinema represented here at Venice in 2011, it is the UK's".

Keira Knightley and Kate Winslet both had leading roles in Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and Roman Polanski's Carnage respectively.

Madonna cast rising stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D'Arcy in her period piece W.E.

And British ensemble piece Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was also in competition - and there was disappointment this stylish spy thriller came away empty-handed.
Playing safe
Darren Aronofsky Jury president Darren Aronofsky praised the quality of films this year

Gary Oldman, who plays agent George Smiley, had been seen as another candidate for best actor.

Michael Fassbender paid tribute to him in his winning speech, saying: "I have been following Gary Oldman's career since I was 14, and I feel very, very humble tonight."

Tinker Tailor may draw some consolation from Darren Aronofsky, the president of this year's jury, who explained that the quality of films at this year's event was both "exhilarating and maddening as the standard is so high. Films that would normally walk away with a major prize will go away empty-handed".

Indeed, there was surprise that Roman Polanski's Carnage which had won rave reviews, wasn't included on the winning list.

Instead other awards went to Italian refugee movie Terrafirma and Japanese tragic-comedy Himizu, which was filmed in the rubble after the earthquake and tsunami this year.

What is certain about this year's event is, that after fears it was sinking as Hollywood deserted to the rival festival at Toronto, it has managed to swim - with about 50 world premieres being held over the last 10 days.

Ironically, it's been helped by the economic downturn as major studios commission "safe" box office bets.

Many A-list actors have turned to arthouse directors like Polanski and Cronenberg for fresh challenges - and these are the kind of films that show at Venice.

It is ironic too, that the UK Film Council used to steer its movies to premiere at Toronto, but now no longer exists.

If that policy had still been in place, Michael Fassbender wouldn't have his Golden Lion, which he was last seen using as a cup for beer.

BBC

9/11 anniversary: US marks 10 years since attacks

The US has started to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Security is tight following warnings of a possible al-Qaeda attack.

The US embassy in Afghanistan has begun the ceremonies, with events due later in the sites where four hijacked planes struck, killing nearly 3,000 people.

An official memorial to those who died is to be unveiled at the site of the World Trade Center, whose twin towers were destroyed in the attacks.

Metal barriers have been erected on roads near the World Trade Center, while police in New York and Washington are stopping and searching large vehicles entering bridges and tunnels.

The CIA received a warning last week that al-Qaeda may have sent attackers, some of them possibly US citizens, to bomb one of the cities.

The warning was described by officials as "credible but unconfirmed".

President Barack Obama has said the US remains vigilant against terrorism.

As in previous anniversaries, the names of all the victims will be read out at the New York event.

There will be pauses for silence at the exact times when two airliners smashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, the third was crashed into the Pentagon and the fourth was forced into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, by passengers who fought with the hijackers.

BBC