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ZURICH, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Swiss inspections group SGS denied on Thursday any responsibility for security at the site where radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq disappeared last year.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - SunEdison Inc said it would sell a facility in Malaysia that produces silicon wafers and close a polysilicon manufacturing plant in Texas, blaming Chinese tariffs on polysilicon manufactured in the United States.

ZURICH, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Swiss inspections group SGS denied on Thursday any responsibility for security at the site where radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq disappeared last year.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Duke Energy Corp reported a five-fold rise in quarterly profit, helped by higher income from its regulated utilities and a return to profit in its international business.

ANKARA/LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Iran believes a global agreement to freeze oil output will not be enough to help prop up prices as the world is producing too much crude, Iranian oil sources told Reuters.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Live and don't learn. That should be the motto of commodity producers who attempt to push prices higher by trying a variety of methods to restrict supply.

NAIROBI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Fighting between youths sheltering in a U.N. compound in South Sudan's Malakal killed five people and wounded 30 after violence erupted between two ethnic groups, the U.N.

LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Saudi officials insist the kingdom's oil production strategy is not aimed at putting U.S. shale producers out of business, a message that has been repeated to visiting U.S. policymakers.

MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A Russian government plan to shore up the recession-battered economy will cost around 880 billion roubles ($11.7 billion), Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Global miner Anglo American Plc's credit rating was downgraded to junk by Standard & Poor's on Thursday, making it the third agency to do so this week.

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