Top photos for Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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From the archives:President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act as officials look on July 2, 1964 in Washington, D.C. | Getty Images / Hulton Archive

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Conchita Wurst attends the MADO 2014 gay parade opening speech at the Chueca square in Madrid, Spain. | Getty Images

A general view of center court as Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria serves during his Gentlemen’s Singles quarter-final match against Andy Murray of Great Britain on day nine of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England. | Getty Images

Prince William Duke of Cambridge gives the thumbs up as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looks on as they attend day Wimbledon. | Getty Images

Yong Ku Kim, from South Korea, applauds during his naturalization ceremony with over 1,000 citizenship candidates at Turner Field in Atlanta. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services welcomed 1,094 new citizens from 81 countries as part of their annual Independence Day celebration marking the nation’s 238th birthday this year. | AP Photo

Davi Niroula, of Bhutan, holds a U.S. flag and an Atlanta Braves foam tomahawk before being sworn in as a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony at Turner Field in Atlanta. | AP Photo

The CuteCircuit’s iMiniskirt display in the Our Digital Futures section of the Barbican’s Digital Revolution exhibition in London, England. The exhibition brings together artists, designers, film makers, musicians and architects who push the boundaries of creativity that digitial technology can offer. | Getty Images

A pro-Russia rebel walks past shrapnel from a Grad missile at a checkpoint in Dyakovsky, Ukraine, some 20 kilometers from the Dolzhansky border post with Russia that Kiev forces retook in heavy fighting. Ukrainian troops guarded the Dolzhansky border post with Russia, a day after they had battled back control of the strategic crossing from pro-Russian rebels in an advance Western-backed president Petro Poroshenko hailed as the “first victory” since he relaunched an offensive following the failure of a 10-day ceasefire. | Getty Images

Fabien Cousteau reacts as he returns to the dock after 31 days undersea in the Aquarius Reef Base in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. Cousteau and his team of filmmakers and scientists dove June 1 to study the effects of climate change and pollution on a nearby coral reef. | AP Photo

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