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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": 152544,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "db885b01bccd5ca18317d0cde9a36a3e",
            "title": "Body found among wreckage of Indonesian plane that lost contact mid",
            "description": "A body has been found among the wreckage of an Indonesian plane that lost contact mid-flight.",
            "content": "A body has been found among the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province in Indonesia.\nIndonesian authorities said the body of one of the 10 people on board the plane was discovered on Sunday on the slop... [2972 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/body-found-among-wreckage-of-plane-in-indonesia/106242700",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/64b0d8a8f8eb6ab8fa61dcdc313eb400?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1152&cropW=2048&xPos=0&yPos=107&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-18T09:51:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1b2f2f3db48220da7f66cf7f6f444e7e",
            "title": "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, reports say",
            "description": "The troops are an option should Donald Trump decide to use them to quell anti-ICE protests in the city, an official tells CBS News.",
            "content": "Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\nThe official said the 1,500 soldiers, currently in Alaska, are an option for US president Donald Trump if he decided to use... [1562 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74v0pxg2nvo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f64f/live/a3a4c350-f43a-11f0-9dcb-91942d6a54e5.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-18T07:15:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "20537be4af0226fa1c79bc63074aeb4c",
            "title": "I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be",
            "description": "My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified",
            "content": "It’s 1836 and the French writer George Sand is swimming in the River Indre with her clothes on, weighed down by layers of ankle-length fabric. To anyone passing by, she must look mad or worse – driven by a death wish. But for her there is the relief ... [25957 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/18/custody-the-secret-history-of-mothers-lara-feigel",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5f4fdd2bf0d7248beb89d5645708c25b2b6bf851/0_681_4800_3840/master/4800.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=de94049120d670a8a884cb0d0f5f8e14",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-18T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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