A US federal judge dismissed prosecutors’ argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska’s North Slope.

Oil giant BP is fighting charges that it violated probation for a 2006 oil spill on Alaska's North Slope by allowing another large spill in the area three years later.

A British woman and her American husband accused over a domestic terrorism plot have admitted lying about the existence of a hit list of possible targets.