
Australia World News API
Get the live top world headlines from Australia with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Australia World News APIAPI 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": 3264104, "articles": [ { "id": "9fe9f91d93abaeaa861fc8cb19ecd191", "title": "Alexei Navalny's wife says new tests show former Russian opposition leader was poisoned", "description": "Yulia Navalnaya says that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples had found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated in prison in February 2024.", "content": "In short:\nYulia Navalnaya says new tests from two laboratories show that her husband, Alexei Navalny, was killed by poisoning.\nThe former Russian opposition leader died in a Russian prison in February 2024.\nIn a video on X, Ms Navalnaya said \"these l... [2294 chars]", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/alexei-nalvalny-poisoned-says-wife-yulia-navalnaya/105786116", "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ea84d1b389b5620f730177c85218370c?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=259&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic", "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T10:00:35Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74", "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au", "country": "au" } }, { "id": "c2e80f403800770001cbf80581aadbcb", "title": "We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire", "description": "Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president’s political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck", "content": "If 2025 was already shaping up to be the worst year of the century for the post-1945 rules-based world order, the past week has been its most destructive week yet. Israel deepened its disregard for international conventions by sending 10 fighter jets... [6265 chars]", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/17/shooting-charlie-kirk-donald-trump-reichstag-fire-european-history-us-president", "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c993991581ef231ec9bcb1df5b7f5e42d065f5ed/195_0_2463_1970/master/2463.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=58b4ee6718b5edd746b47d96c9411d16", "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T08:10:00Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99", "name": "The Guardian", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com", "country": "au" } }, { "id": "618b27ebdc3b847ce19c3fa9ea504683", "title": "Suspect released from German prison, say police", "description": "Christian Brueckner, the German man who remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madelei...", "content": "Christian Brueckner, the German man who remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal, has been released from prison on after serving a sentence on other charges, German police said.\nGerman prosecutors first... [1462 chars]", "url": "https://www.9news.com.au/world/madeleine-mccann-suspect-released-from-german-prison-say-police/9b8d0cc2-62b8-4ce0-9865-c476f3ef1cac", "image": "https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/ENkzwjjjOhQT9RSpmLBR4Ae5IME=/1200x628/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fb68fb014-ef47-4969-86cd-d4bfcb489365", "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T08:07:23Z", "lang": "en", "source": { "id": "0a61032700ac7fb846fa8c9c95b0e2d5", "name": "9News", "url": "https://www.9news.com.au", "country": "au" } } ] }