outweighed by the real, human pain of some 10,000 gun homicides each year. In this context, Americans kill other Americans at a rate three times the death rate of September 11, *every year* - it's easy to see the weighting of cultural values once it's made clear. A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected bribes from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Police are investigating a string of top Australian horse-racing figures, including champion jockey Danny Nikolic (pictured), for alleged race fixing in what is shaping as the biggest corruption scandal to hit the sport in decades.