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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": 157596,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "762d9ae37cd25c17db142b0f30caa734",
            "title": "Iran rocked by fresh protests, as Trump threatens strikes over nuclear deal",
            "description": "The US president has also reportedly been briefed on options to assassinate the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and various mullahs.",
            "content": "February 22, 2026 — 7:30pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\nIranian university students have... [4478 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/iran-rocked-by-fresh-protests-as-trump-threatens-strikes-over-nuclear-deal-20260222-p5o4fy.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.4248%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_93/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/48c2e596d2d2868d4ef786f73cf7d38052dd7f3a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T08:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0bdd6ff2677e6f101edcc6cf00b86472",
            "title": "Pakistan launches strikes on Afghanistan, with Taliban saying dozens killed",
            "description": "Pakistan says the strikes were retaliation for recent suicide bombings in the country.",
            "content": "Pakistan has carried out multiple overnight air strikes on Afghanistan, which the Taliban has said killed and wounded dozens of people, including women and children.\nIslamabad said the attacks targeted seven alleged militant camps and hideouts near t... [2049 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxgln3gnd6o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a6f5/live/87fcb140-0fc3-11f1-8b12-b5b1975625e0.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T08:07:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "53aa76bee8ca5f800062f0b4c7216e03",
            "title": "Trump says he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland",
            "description": "It is not known whether the ship had been requested by Denmark or Greenland and which sick people needed help. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "- US President Donald Trump said on Feb 21 he was working with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to send a hospital boat to Greenland,\na Danish territory that Mr Trump has said he wants to acquire.\nMr Trump announced the plan on social media moments bef... [1361 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-says-he-is-sending-a-hospital-ship-to-greenland",
            "image": "https://cassette.sphdigital.com.sg/image/straitstimes/b68fbd7df9cf5da5ccd36212d262e88e58d94e140ceca4096d9c035d7ae2a11d",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T07:25:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "739b615c65becd670ee152cab7f8c439",
                "name": "The Straits Times",
                "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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