NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five menswear designers helped kick off New York Fashion Week on Friday, with designers citing influences as eclectic as Zanzibar beaches, the 1970s, and their own dreams.

DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - Keir Starmer will go to Dublin on Saturday, the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British Prime Minister for five years, as his new government seeks to improve relations with its nearest neighbour and other members of the European Union.

PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will arrive in one of the world's most remote Catholic communities in Papua New Guinea on Sunday to something approaching home – a group of Argentine missionaries who plan to welcome him with a steaming cup of "mate", a traditional South American herbal drink.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Taylor Fritz held on to beat Frances Tiafoe 4-6 7-5 4-6 6-4 6-1 in a blockbuster all-American semi-final at the U.S. Open on Friday and will take on the role of the underdog when he meets Italian top seed Jannik Sinner in the finale.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government is considering tax hikes that do not require congressional approval to balance this year's budget, two finance ministry sources said on Friday, after officials acknowledged that new revenue measures could be implemented.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Friday he will vote for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Republican former President Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 U.S. elections, following a similar statement made by his daughter Liz Cheney this week.

(Reuters) - The S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Friday server maker Dell Technologies, data analytics firm Palantir Technologies and property and casualty insurer Erie Indemnity will join the benchmark S&P 500 before the market opens on Sept. 23.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed a human case of avian influenza A reported by the state of Missouri. The case was identified through that state's seasonal flu surveillance system, the agency said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday, capping a three-month test mission hobbled by technical issues that forced the astronauts it had flown to the International Space Station to remain there until next year.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A preliminary report into the August crash of an airliner in Brazil found signs of ice buildup on the plane but no definite cause for the accident, the country's Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) said on Friday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Pamela Anderson portrays a veteran Las Vegas showgirl forced to confront an uncertain future when she suddenly finds herself out of a job in “The Last Showgirl,” a heartfelt drama that made its premiere on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas are among U.S. states benefiting most from funding and investment to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia, a breakdown of spending by the Pentagon showed on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Pakistani citizen living in Canada was arrested on Wednesday and charged with planning an attack in New York City in support of the Islamic State, the Department of Justice said on Friday.

(Reuters) - California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed undocumented immigrants access to state funds in helping buy a home, citing "finite funding."

BRASILIA (Reuters) -European Union and South American negotiators ended two days of trade negotiations on Friday with "significant progress" on contentious issues that have been holding up the long-overdue EU-Mercosur agreement, two sources close to the talks said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgia Tech is ending its research and educational partnerships in the Chinese cities of Tianjin and Shenzhen, the U.S. university said on Friday, following scrutiny from Congress over its collaboration with entities allegedly linked to China's military.

(Reuters) -StandardAero, an aircraft maintenance services provider backed by private equity firm Carlyle Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday.

(Reuters) - Discount home goods retailer Big Lots is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as this Sunday and plans to sell its chain of stores through a court-supervised process, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council began considering on Friday a draft resolution to extend the mandate for an international security mission helping Haiti fight armed gangs and ask the U.N. to plan for it to become a formal peacekeeping mission.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Environment Agency announced on Friday that it rejected carbon credits for 215,000 tons of CO2 emissions from oil companies due to suspected fraud involving climate projects in China.