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Australia World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia World News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 146534,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8bb4b46720be5433eaa15872180e00ad",
            "title": "7.6 earthquake in Japan prompts tsunami warning",
            "description": "The quake has seen a tsunami warning issued for large parts of Japan's northern coastline.",
            "content": "A magnitude-7.6 earthquake has hit near Japan's north-eastern coast, prompting a tsunami warning covering a large part of the country's coastline.\nThe Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said the quake's epicentre was in the Pacific Ocean, 80 kilometre... [1921 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/japan-earthquake-prompts-tsunami-warning/106117964",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a0a610b77c6da5f28d1000f70d3f82c0?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=383&cropW=680&xPos=0&yPos=69&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T14:37:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "76df978271f112a7894cad5837dab417",
            "title": "The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home",
            "description": "For a million years, one of humanity’s last cousins lived on an island in Indonesia. Why did they disappear?",
            "content": "About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more than a million years living on the isolated volcan... [5426 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/the-hobbits-mysteriously-disappeared-50-000-years-ago-our-new-study-reveals-what-happened-to-their-home-268668",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/706871/original/file-20251207-66-gnci0t.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C579%2C4000%2C2000&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T10:05:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "199720d35fe921c61fdaf67865599ef6",
            "title": "Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast",
            "description": "First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC",
            "content": "An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists.\nWith its palaces, temples and the 130 metre-high Pharos lig... [4328 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/ancient-egyptian-pleasure-boat-found-archaeologists-alexandria-coast",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e042625e0270ca7e1b1d813a86f661e65e28ba6/278_0_4332_3466/master/4332.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=8d92cc5808c60edd3d16bd45fe03c76d",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T09:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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