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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": 159216,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2a7b63848565897d8662443ce70caee2",
            "title": "Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’; Israeli strikes hit Beirut",
            "description": "Flights from the Middle East to Australia are resuming, but the conflict continues to ravage the region as Israel strikes deeper into Lebanon, and the US and Iran trade blows. Follow our rolling coverage.",
            "content": "Sri Lankan authorities have transferred more than 200 sailors from an Iranian naval vessel to a camp ashore, two days after a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in the same area.\nSri Lankan navy spokesperson Commander Buddhika Sampath... [5780 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/us-iran-war-live-updates-etihad-resumes-flights-to-australia-uk-police-arrest-four-men-on-suspicion-of-iranian-spying-20260306-p5o89b.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.8358%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_55/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/fcc5bc3f6054ce24934367baa4717cdb10e0ef757adaf9b69822c146f898853a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T15:50:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cfbb3631d24df76323e522cdc7fa50ec",
            "title": "Emirates resumes some Dubai flights - what's the latest on travel to UK?",
            "description": "New flights to the UK from the Middle East follow days of widespread air travel disruption which had left Britons stranded.",
            "content": "1 hour ago\nElla Kipling\nAirlines Etihad and Emirates have confirmed they will be running a limited number of services from Abu Dhabi and Dubai to the UK over the next few days.\nAnd Emirates said it was working to restore full network operations, foll... [4637 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge52x4w37o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/44a2/live/d3c3f2d0-1948-11f1-8e5e-abb58cd0aded.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T12:37:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c902dfbea9a0402a60abb9ab18ba380e",
            "title": "First flight back from Dubai to Perth empty despite more than 100,000 Aussies stranded",
            "description": "The first flight from Dubai back to Perth since Middle East airspaces closed due to Iran’s retaliatory strikes is mostly empty despite more than 100,000 Australians remaining stranded in the Middle East.",
            "content": "The first flight from Dubai back to Perth since Middle East airspaces closed due to Iran’s retaliatory strikes is mostly empty despite more than 100,000 Australians remaining stranded in the Middle East.\nPhotos from flight EK420 showed empty rows as ... [3256 chars]",
            "url": "https://thewest.com.au/news/middle-east/first-flight-back-from-dubai-to-perth-empty-despite-more-than-100000-aussies-stranded-c-21856825",
            "image": "https://images.thewest.com.au/publication/C-21856825/cc782bb00795379c4a7c9d8f7181e67012f0c220-16x9-x55y41w2259h1270.jpg?imwidth=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T11:18:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e7c920f999a284bb99022e8c7fe602ca",
                "name": "The West Australian",
                "url": "https://thewest.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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