A Graaff-Reinet woman is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a buffalo while she was walking in the Mountain Zebra National Park.

When it comes to wolfing chicken wings, Sonya Thomas is a wiz. The 48kg competitive eater who goes by "The Black Widow" bested a dozen beefy rivals on Saturday night, scarfing 173 wings in 12 minutes to win the wing-eating contest at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.

They came. They saw. They bared all. And in the end, the 1 826 people who shed their clothes for American photographer Spencer Tunick on Sunday were a work of art.Tunick has been doing such nude assemblages -- he calls them temporary site-related installations -- around the world since 1992.