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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": 143436,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "fb47f2d0107a4f0ef81fbe20594e4588",
            "title": "ISIS bride saga deepens; Jesse Jackson dies; Angus Taylor frontbench revealed; Randa Abdel-Fattah to headline Sydney Writer’s Festival",
            "description": "Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and beyond.",
            "content": "Two years of real wages growth has come to an end.\nFigures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning showed the wage price index – which measures changes in the wage bill of businesses – lifted by 0.8 per cent in the December quarter.\nBot... [12070 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-news-live-director-of-camp-holding-is-brides-says-they-presented-valid-documents-passports-close-associate-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-civil-rights-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-at-84-20260218-p5o37l.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3153%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_283%2C$y_78/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/95093f4a9093f3b0879b6880f9355a55d87af64a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T00:45:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "828fd74e458afa1c76f863a4942427f8",
            "title": "Stephen Colbert says network blocked interview with Democrat. CBS denies it",
            "description": "The network denies it stopped the interview with a Texas Democrat from airing but warned it could run afoul of the US broadcast media watchdog.",
            "content": "Late-night host Stephen Colbert has accused his network of refusing to broadcast his interview with a Democratic politician over fears of retaliation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\nCBS, the network which hosts the programme, denies t... [2781 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze0dk3yd5eo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8611/live/5895d6b0-0c5e-11f1-ab36-eb9abcfc18cf.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T00:12:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "67238d59a6395b9fcd01b62920c1cfc8",
            "title": "As Iran talks drag on, questions emerge over how long Trump will indulge diplomacy",
            "description": "Iranian and American negotiators departed their indirect talks in Geneva with an agreement to keep talking, doing little to ease fears of an impending regional war.",
            "content": "After passing notes for three-and-a-half hours Tuesday, Iranian and American negotiators departed their indirect talks in Geneva with an agreement to keep talking. What they’re talking about, exactly, remains an open question.\nIt’s unclear if the two... [7434 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/politics/trump-iran-negotiation-war-diplomacy",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-2261012886.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T22:04:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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