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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": 160920,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6f491bd94c54ad397b0997306a48cb3d",
            "title": "No Good Friday truce as Russia launches daytime attacks on Ukraine, killing 14, damaging vet clinic",
            "description": "The Russian military used more than 500 drones and dozens of missiles, according to the Ukrainian air force, destroying residential buildings and damaging a veterinary clinic.",
            "content": "Russian strikes have killed at least 14 people in Ukraine on Good Friday, officials say, the latest in an increasing number of daytime attacks launched by Russia against its neighbour.\nMoscow has been firing aerial broadsides at Ukraine regularly thr... [3233 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-04/russian-military-strikes-kyiv-residential-buildings-good-friday/106531332",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e492eeeca3826df38ea72f764dfab0f9?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=260&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-04T02:03:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "69dfd81e18a9d876c9570fb6d5f4ad48",
            "title": "The most beautiful coast in the world? Exploring New Zealand’s overlooked Nelson Tasman by sand and sea",
            "description": "For years this region was regarded as little more than a gateway from the North Island to the South. But spend several days there and you’ll ache to tear yourself away",
            "content": "The visitor to New Zealand’s South Island knows what they have to see. There’s a well-trodden circuit. Lake Tekapo and Mount Cook, to gaze at the stars. Queenstown, for a spot of daredevil adventure. The glaciers, Fox and Franz Josef. And then down t... [5703 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/apr/04/new-zealand-south-island-nelson-tasman-coast",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dcf9cca2fb1abf7068ba90aa44599c64bf495b90/139_0_1221_977/master/1221.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=5061f191d77e4c93f75cc78e475e65ff",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T23:01:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8412f8d884ad133ec456e890df8c71f0",
            "title": "Trump issues order declaring all DHS staff get paid amid partial shutdown",
            "description": "US president issues executive order as longest partial shutdown in US history enters 49th day",
            "content": "Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that declares all Department of Homeland Security employees will receive pay and benefits during the agency’s partial shutdown. The “Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused... [2215 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-executive-order-dhs-pay-partial-shutdown",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/050a0828a6d8747399e62b0a726b7671efcc7dd5/672_0_5478_4383/master/5478.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=ea91d5e983f020917da454f5031aa9b0",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T22:57:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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