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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": 135382,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "45fb3d43eb91fb5782d3f157cc02bf41",
            "title": "Ethiopian volcano erupts after lying dormant for 12,000 years",
            "description": "No casualties reported, but resident of Afar region says impact of eruption ‘felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown’.",
            "content": "A long-dormant volcano in northern Ethiopia has erupted, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea towards Yemen and Oman.\nThe Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, located about 800 kilometres (500 miles) northeast of Addis Ababa, erupt... [1649 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/24/ethiopian-volcano-erupts-after-lying-dormant-for-12000-years",
            "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/reuters_6924c65b-1764017755.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T22:23:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7530d90c9af769eda4cb548f32ed381d",
                "name": "Al Jazeera",
                "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cb71a0956654b9b0d72fe73901dc4dae",
            "title": "Tatiana Schlossberg essay raises awareness of acute myeloid leukemia",
            "description": "Doctors say her struggle - even with the best care as a member of a prominent family - emphasises the need for more research.",
            "content": "Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, moved many Americans over the weekend with her emotional essay about being diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child.\nIn The New Yorker, the... [4470 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9ynjg3zy0o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/404c/live/339002a0-c983-11f0-84b0-85226717c3ac.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T21:58:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "69e3b2863001d8925873d7711d97d8e3",
            "title": "China's regional trade pact bid derails as Australia stalls and Japan tensions deepen",
            "description": "China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements.",
            "content": "What happened to Australia is now happening to Japan — almost step for step.\nThe same cycle that defined Beijing's pressure campaign against Canberra is now unfolding across the East China Sea: a diplomatic thaw, a burst of optimism, and then a sudde... [7163 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/china-japan-trans-pacific-partnership-australia-trade/106045604",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/620c842e08db824a72b46c3762efc927?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1890&cropW=3360&xPos=0&yPos=154&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T21:37:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "abc.net.au",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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