[03:30.60]Mr. Kibaki who’s stepping down after two terms in office said he was making a passionate plea for all Kenyans to ensure a free,
[03:38.87]fair, just and peaceful election.
[03:41.21]More than 1,000 people died in violence following the last disputed presidential poll in 2007.
[03:48.18]Forest rangers in northeast India say they’ve fought a seven-hour gun battle with heavily armed poachers
[03:54.73]but were unable to prevent them killing a rare one-horned rhinoceros.
[03:58.52]Most of the world’s remaining 3,300 one-horned rhinos live in India’s Kaziranga National Park which is a world heritage site.
[04:07.07]Warren Bull has this report.
[04:09.15]Rangers from the Kaziranga National Park said that after the gun battle they found the dead rhino riddled
[04:16.19]with bullets with its horn removed alongside the carcass was spent rifle ammunition.
[04:21.47]Kaziranga’s warden said poachers had killed 13 rhinos in two months at the park
[04:26.50]which is a UNESCO world heritage site and an attractive target for poachers because it’s home to about 2,200 one-horned rhinos,
[04:35.41]all 2/3 of the world’s population.
[04:38.22]A man in Florida has been swallowed up by a ten-meter wide sinkhole that opened up underneath a bedroom of his house.
[04:44.57]It’s not yet clear whether Jeff Bush survived the fall.