Mariah Luera, Kennedale Fellowship, Fr.

Nokia will get some support from the top U.S. wireless carriers. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), the No. 1 telecommunications carrier; Verizon Wireless, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ); Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile USA all said they'll handle Windows-based smartphones.

Italy's FTSE MIB was trading 1.89% lower.

Kennedy was joined in the DOMA decision by the court's four liberal justices.

The merger did not result in direct help, but will help forge relationships with other Salafi-jihadi militants such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Boko Haram in Nigeria - "both of which have engaged with al-Shabab in the recent past", it says.