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Australia World News API

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

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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": 151956,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "baee340dd078ce43c811d34be9d67bbd",
            "title": "Vosarogo: Govt outlined its role, Miss Fiji Pageant made its own decision",
            "description": "Vosarogo: Govt outlined its role, Miss Fiji Pageant made its own decision",
            "content": "Acting Prime Minister, Filimoni Vosarogo says the press release on the Miss Fiji Pageant clarifies the decision reached by government in October 2025.\nVosarogo says it clarifies government's role in approving the Miss South Pacific to come back to Fi... [1137 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.fijivillage.com/news/vosarogo-govt-outlined-its-role-miss-fiji-pageant-made-its-own-decision-a6f9c9/",
            "image": "https://www.fijivillage.com/news_images/20260122092430_media_6970a097cdf404_53348505.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T05:03:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d09bd724492d6dd007b475108c306a91",
                "name": "Fijivillage",
                "url": "https://www.fijivillage.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8a8e593ef97e0f52ef71f92611e74391",
            "title": "National security trial for Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists begins",
            "description": "Prosecutors claim the group's call to end China's one-party rule is subversive to the constitution.",
            "content": "Three activists who organised annual vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have gone on trial in Hong Kong, facing charges under the city's controversial national security law.\nChow Hang-tung, 40, Lee Cheuk-yan, 68, and Albert Ho,... [2295 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwnn5wx5vgo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/89ff/live/843daa10-f730-11f0-a7cf-4bac2e3e5d2c.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T02:50:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3cf33b83b9ea5c2284972f90323a6501",
            "title": "Jim Chalmers says Canadian PM’s ‘stunning’ denunciation of Trump is being widely discussed in Australian government",
            "description": "Treasurer joins former PM Malcom Turnbull in praising Mark Carney’s comments at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos",
            "content": "Jim Chalmers has described the Canadian prime minister’s passionate denunciation of Donald Trump’s assault on the global rules-based order as a “stunning speech” that was being “widely shared and discussed” inside the government.\nAt this week’s annua... [2497 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/22/mark-carney-canada-denunciation-trump-australia-jim-chalmers",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/872b6fbb5d3643a96d2225a32e2d275fd9544210/983_0_4893_3917/master/4893.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=ef770df3e1547a1f0353976eed51bb3c",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T02:41:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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