WORLD BITES

A BURMESE python that ate a two-year-old cow died after the animal swelled in its stomach and burst it. A farmer in Phitsanulok province, Thailand, found the 15ft snake, which was then burned.

WAGYU beef has been 3D printed in the hope of making the meat industry more sustainable. A Japanese team made ‘meat-like tissue’ by growing muscle and fat from stem cells then arranged them as a steak using bioprinting.

A BRAZILIAN man who cheated the system to get five Covid vaccines has been caught trying to get a sixth shot. The man told medical authorities in Rio he still did not feel ‘immune’ enough.