Yoko to award grants to mark Lennon birthday

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is to award two $50,000 (€39,683) peace grants on the late Beatle's birthday.

She is to present the awards to the global medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres and rights campaigners the Center for Constitutional Rights.

She says they have worked "selflessly and tirelessly towards establishing a more peaceful planet".

The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace was established in 2002. John Lennon, murdered in 1980, would have been 66 today.