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": 150190,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f441a590dca28e992d95d7d72a7fab01",
            "title": "Large-scale Ukrainian drone attack kills three in Moscow region, says Russia",
            "description": "In Ukraine, local officials report eight injured in overnight Russian drone strikes and shelling.",
            "content": "Three people were killed overnight in a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Russian officials have said.\nA woman died in a house in Khimki, north of the capital, where a person was trapped under rubble, regional governor Andrei V... [2536 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye480kxpmo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/043b/live/04a83f80-51bd-11f1-a61d-97b09d8870ae.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T07:21:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fcdd416fb5a7d6066f47baf88e10b8d8",
            "title": "Protesters march at Nakba Day rallies around Australia",
            "description": "Crowds gather at rallies around the country to commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, a day that recognises the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948.",
            "content": "Protesters have marched in cities across Australia to mark the Nakba, a day that recognises the mass displacement of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.\nThe anniversary of the Nakba, which means \"catastrophe\" in Arabic, falls on May 15 eac... [4264 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nakba-day-rallies-held-around-australia/106689562",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/f4a1f10b03eb460d58e56d9d26103537?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1059&cropW=1882&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T06:46:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "48469380cc75a6670491ee02655c3bc3",
            "title": "‘A place for everybody’: Stockholm to open its first publicly run sauna",
            "description": "Unlike its Nordic neighbours, finding a place in the Swedish capital to bada bastu is hard, with years-long waiting lists at member clubs",
            "content": "There is little doubt that Stockholm is a city of sauna-goers. All year round, from early morning to late into the night, the city’s residents can be seen emerging from wooden huts, a trail of woodsmoke coming from the chimney, and lowering themselve... [4635 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/a-place-for-everybody-stockholm-to-open-its-first-publicly-run-sauna",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c93eed304eecb83b6f43317b3fd8c0d4888d7449/975_258_4237_3390/master/4237.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=8d4e6d7d24f989da9170b4733c065f3c",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T04:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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