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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": 156712,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "092dc8bab536bd012f2377fc753229fc",
            "title": "Trump to raise new worldwide tariff to 15 per cent on all countries",
            "description": "The US president did not indicate exemptions for countries where the US already has a trade surplus, such as Australia.",
            "content": "Updated February 22, 2026 — 10:49am,first published 3:44am\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\n... [5365 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/trump-to-raise-new-worldwide-tariff-to-15-per-cent-on-all-countries-20260222-p5o4c8.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.4893%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_48%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/554318812d65a85f236a402b6be22269049116ed",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T23:49:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "62d803c08796f17978a79e17573d2857",
            "title": "Today in History - February 22: Robbers didn't have enough room for all the cash they stole",
            "description": "The largest cash robbery in UK history took place on February 22, 2006.",
            "content": "A group of robbers kidnapped the manager of the Securitas depot and his family, before tricking their way into the Tonbridge building.\nThere, the armed thieves tied up the employees at the depot and attempted to load all the cash they could into a tr... [1620 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-february-22-what-happened-on-this-day/cd401ecc-ec58-460b-a677-e8461d1ca7ce",
            "image": "https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/QB0MJOYNr0zGhl8pxKMnE_dVtO0=/1200x628/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F366a4014-ecd1-4289-a7d3-6dff44bfab1b",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T19:16:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0a61032700ac7fb846fa8c9c95b0e2d5",
                "name": "9News.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.9news.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "399ffbb5fa83174006a5377c34b998e4",
            "title": "Last chance for Australians to send message to the universe on Voyager project’s 50th anniversary",
            "description": "Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life",
            "content": "Do you have a message you want to shout out to the universe? Or whisper into the ear-equivalent of an alien?\nIn interstellar space, more than 20bn km from Earth, the Voyager spacecraft are whizzing along at more than 50,000 km/h.\nLaunched in 1977, th... [4826 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/22/last-chance-for-australians-to-send-message-to-the-universe-on-voyager-projects-50th-anniversary",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c59b1763bf6291956e419f679ae1c40dbc137f81/458_0_1800_1440/master/1800.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=1e27291abad83f3467903d0c3df838b4",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T19:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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