John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono will tell people around the world “to learn to love each other in peace” today as millions of people celebrate what would have been the music legend’s 70th birthday.

John Lennon's 70th birthday will be marked with a time-capsule ceremony.

G.M.C. Balayogi, the speaker of the Indian Parliament’s lower house, was killed today in a helicopter crash in southern India where he had attended a peace rally. He was 50.