University Perth

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  How Husband-Wife Team Built $12 Billion Fortune With A Startup

  While teaching design programs part-time in 2008 when she was at university in Perth, Australia, Melanie Perkins grew frustrated with the clunky desktop-based tools she was helping her students understand.

• Australian Solar Car Smashes World Land Speed Record

  An Australian solar car has broken a 26-year-old world speed record, potentially establishing itself as the fastest electric vehicle over a distance of 500 kilometres, on a single battery charge.

• Undersea volcanoes, huge seas complicate MH370 search

  Searchers racing to find flight MH370's "black box" face daunting hurdles ranging from undersea volcanoes to mountainous seas as they operate in one of Earth's most remote locations, experts said on Wednesday.

• Australia braces for fire danger as heatwave hits

  Australian authorities warned on Tuesday of some of the worst fire danger since a 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with most of the continent's southeast sweltering through a major heatwave.

• Indian student jailed in Australia in visa scam

  A Perth-based Indian student will spend 14 months in jail for his involvement in a scam to falsify English test scores to get Australian visas.