A 28-story building in eastern China became a towering inferno after a fire broke out Tuesday.

Like a scene from a Hollywood movie, flames were captured engulfing the high-rise in downtown Nanjing, which is identified as the Longsheng Building by several media outlets.

Miraculously, there were no casualties.

Firefighters were eventually able to bring it under control, according to local news, but the cause is not yet known.

A lab technician for the New Jersey State Police's Office of Forensic Science has 'retired' early after being caughtfalsely identifying a substance as marijuana without conducting the proper tests. On Monday, Deputy Public Defender Judy Fallon issued a memo to Public Defender Joseph Krakora explaining Kamalkant Shah's falsified report:

"Laboratory Technician II Kamalkant Shah of the New Jersey State Police Laboratory (in Little Falls) has been found to have 'dry labbed' suspected CDS specimens. Basically, he was observed writing 'test results' for suspected marijuana that was never tested."

According to NJ Advance Media, "Ellie Honig, director of the Division of Criminal Justice of the Attorney general's office, said in [a] Feb. 22 letter to county prosecutor's offices that Shah 'failed to appropriately conduct laboratory analyses in a drug case.'"

The letter, released from the Attorney General to the news outlet on Wednesday, disclosed that "Mr. Shah was observed in one case spending insufficient time analyzing a substance to determine if it was marijuana and recording an anticipated result without properly conducting the analysis."

"The letter advised prosecutors to disclose this information to defense counsel," NJ Advance Media reported.

The former technician's indiscretion in that singular marijuana case has now called into question thousands of drug cases he conducted tests for, as the one in question was only the first observed instance of his dishonesty.

As Fallon noted, "Mr. Shah was employed with the lab from 2005 to 2015; obviously all his 'results' have been called into question."

"In Passaic County alone, the universe of cases possibly implicated in this conduct is 2,100. The Prosecutor's Office is still in the process of identifying them. Their plan is to submit for retesting specimens from open cases," she said.

Shah's fraudulent testing, overall, may have affected 7,827 drug cases on which he worked. Fallon also indicated the Little Falls crime lab provides testing for other law enforcement agencies across the state, not just the State Police.

Fallon wrote that the Prosecutor's Office for Passaic County has not yet formulated a strategy to deal with the fallout of the falsified reports. She indicated the difficulty of identifying all the potential cases whose outcomes were influenced by the inaccurate, or downright absence, of testing:

"The larger, and unanswered, question is how this impacts already resolved cases, especially those where the specimens may have been destroyed."

Australia will spend more than US$11 million in a bid to exterminate European carp by releasing a virulent strain of herpes into the country's largest waterway.

As much as 15 million Australian dollars will be spent on funding the clearing of the Murray-Darling Basin from the country's worst freshwater feral pest. This will be included into Tuesday's federal budget, Australian authorities said on Sunday.

Interestingly enough, the war on fish is to be waged by an unusual means - the water will be contaminated with a special type of herpes, known as koi herpes.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientists have been carrying out various tests for nearly a decade on other animals including chickens, mice, frogs, turtles and water dragons "to determine the safety and suitability" of the virus in dealing with an excessive carp population.

The virus was proven to be harmless to humans and animals, but it causes kidney failure in carps, attacks their skin and kills the fish after sitting tight in its system for about seven days.

Cancer-struck workers at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California have been denied state compensation in order to keep the danger posed by the nuclear site to nearby residential areas out of the public eye, a former employee told RT.

Hundreds of workers at the nuclear and aeronautical facility in Simi Valley, which was instrumental in the US space program from 1949 to 2006, have died or fallen ill due to exposure to radiation.

However, when those people applied for compensation in accordance with a US government program, their claims were denied, McClatchy DC reported.

The Department of Energy (DOE) explained the refusal by saying that the sick employees were unable to prove that they had worked in 'Area IV' at Santa Susana.

Only staff from this section are eligible for compensations as 'Area IV' was the location of nuclear reactor experimentations and development, according to the Department of Labor, which is responsible for making payments.

Located in the center of Okinawa Island, Kadena Air Base is the largest United States Air Force installation in Asia.

Equipped with two 3.7 kilometer runways and thousands of hangars, homes and workshops, the base and its adjoining arsenal at Chibana sprawl across 46 square kilometers of Okinawa's main island. Approximately 20,000 American service members, contractors and their families live or work here alongside 3,000 Japanese employees. More than 16,000 Okinawans own the land upon which the installation sits.¹

Kadena Air Base hosts the biggest combat wing in the USAF - the 18th Wing - and, during the past seven decades, the installation has served as an important launch pad for wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. Given the long history of Kadena Air Base and its city-sized scale, it is easy to understand why the USAF calls it "The Keystone of the Pacific."

But until now, no one has realized the damage the base has inflicted on the environment and those who live in its vicinity. Documents obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act reveal how years of accidents and neglect have polluted local land and water with hazardous chemicals including arsenic, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos and dioxin. Military authorities have often hidden this contamination, putting at risk the health of U.S. service members, Okinawan base employees, and the 184,000 Okinawan civilians living in neighboring communities.

Following the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday evening, a brawl broke out between Fox News and Huffington Post reporters at the MSNBC after-show party, ironically held at the US Institute of Peace.

The star-studded event was made more interesting when, at around 1:30 AM, Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim approached Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters and began filming him, mimicking the latter's style of ambush interviews.

The new Iranian parliament will see more women than clerics, whose number have reached an all-time low, parliamentary elections results have shown. This is the first time women have outnumbered clerics in the country's history.

According to the official voting results issued on Saturday, 17 women will become members of the 290-seat parliament compared to clerics who only won 16 seats, AFP reports. Although the clerics fall just one seat behind women, their overall number has reached an all-time low.

What is more, female politicians have beaten their previous record as the highest number of seats they managed to get in the past was just 14. Compared to the previous election, the number of women almost doubled.

"As a young woman, I ran to inspire women and give them courage to fight for their rights. I ran to play my role in the destiny of the country and stop extremists from capturing seats in parliament," Fatemeh Hosseini, one of the "winners", said as reported by AP.

Police officers in America possess an authority to enforce the will of the ruling class. This authority often manifests into immoral acts of state violence and extortion, as laws, no matter their cruel nature or intent, are callously enforced by people just doing their jobs.

Below is a brief and informative video that details 5 of these manifestations.

5. Police can Disappear you.

In 2014, a secret black site prison was exposed operating inside the city of Chicago. At the black site, named Homan Square, innocent individuals were kidnapped, held without due process, beaten, and some of them even killed, as police enforced the state's immoral war on drugs.

Though by now, almost no one in the country trusts corporate media or the political system it's essentially paid to promote, both came together in a fabulously tabloidesque brawl — at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Try as you might, you cannot make such laughably ironic content up.

At an afterparty located — again, for emphasis' sake — at the Institute for Peace following the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters and Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim literally came to blows. The two party paradigm had physically manifested itself into an embarrassing left versus right drunken melee.

The number of shooting incidents in the US in which toddlers have shot either themselves or others has, so far, increased by almost 30 percent in 2016 when compared with the same period last year, a Washington Post tally has revealed.

Gun-related injuries or deaths, according to the publication, have been happening at an average of more than one incident per week. So far this year at least 23 toddler-involved shootings have been reported, compared with 18 incidents across the same period last year.

Nine out of at least 18 children who shot themselves in 2016 died from their wounds. In addition, toddlers shot other people five times, with two of the incidents resulting in a death.

Washington Post fears that their tally could in reality be much higher, as the pro-gun-control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, found at least 77 instances this year in which a child younger than 18 accidentally shot someone.