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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": 149356,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e8597de67c564c508dfdc1aa57665f2b",
            "title": "FBI releases footage of Brown University shooting suspect",
            "description": "Police say the footage shows the suspect \"casing\" the area around the campus before the attack.",
            "content": "Police and the FBI have released \"enhanced\" video footage of the suspected Brown University shooter and called for the public to help identify him.\nTwo students were killed and another nine people were injured in the shooting on the Ivy League school... [2842 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-17/fbi-releases-footage-of-brown-university-shooting-suspect/106152432",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/0cc95c0e729f8307f983edf462df32fc?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=364&cropW=648&xPos=166&yPos=25&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T02:52:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bfd3b902ffd5c90e62ad36c543b51aec",
            "title": "Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi ‘in good health’ after son raises alarm",
            "description": "Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing.",
            "content": "Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing.\nIn an... [1567 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/asia/myanmar-junta-aung-san-suu-kyi-health-intl-hnk",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230914105948-aung-san-suu-kyi-110219.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T01:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2d3e2f163144a356baf747431e5ea726",
            "title": "Trump’s two Americas are getting further apart",
            "description": "A long-awaited raft of data has just dropped and spells trouble for Donald Trump’s economy. The actual numbers might be worse.",
            "content": "The US unemployment rate is now at its highest since the pandemic, but the White House says “the best is yet to come”.\nThe disparity between the facts and their interpretation highlights how the 43-day shutdown of the US government, during which the ... [5854 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/trump-s-two-americas-are-getting-further-apart-20251217-p5noch.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.6390607407407407%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_78%2C$y_81/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_metro_opinion_no_age_social_wm/e434731fd7d4eba7c1f798f33aa5aaaa22863267",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T00:59:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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