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": 157714,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8b5dbc060d4dab108e34336b199904e3",
            "title": "I will never forget the teacher who negotiated to be gang-raped instead of her daughter. These war crimes against women must be addressed",
            "description": "Since April 2023, Sudan’s women and girls have been subjected to systematic rape and sexual torture. Specialised support and justice for them is key to the country’s recovery and future",
            "content": "In a village in South Darfur, I met a young girl about my daughter’s age – six or seven years old – who touched my hand and said: “I was taken by the Janjaweed.” This was more than 20 years ago, during the first Darfur crisis, and at the time, that w... [4962 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/02/sudan-rape-torture-rsf-saf-war-crimes-against-women",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2685854ca304a65ba8d03a11598a5111dfd8b55/78_0_1406_1125/master/1406.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=4e8e3911eaea936911a3bdc18507b198",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fd01f3c301452d034c1bf8b8988bb0dc",
            "title": "The New Zealand Parakeet Pair That Are Saving Their Species",
            "description": "There are about 450 orange-fronted parakeets left in the world. Super breeders Nacho and Trixie are doing their best to bolster the population.",
            "content": "Two critically endangered parakeets have been hailed as “super breeders” in New Zealand after the pair produced 55 chicks in two years — increasing the population by more than 10 percent.\nThe native kākāriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeet, was de... [1485 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/world/australia/kakariki-karaka-bird-parakeet-new-zealand-endangered.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/28/world/00-int-nz-birds-promo/00-int-nz-birds-promo-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T04:00:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a1ee491e4d0f131e06e083d92498908b",
            "title": "‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings",
            "description": "The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took me up close",
            "content": "The aurochs, the mammoth and the steppe bison are long extinct, but their painted likenesses still look relatively fresh across the walls and roofs of Altamira. Or so said Diego Garate Maidagan, who is one of the very few humans allowed to enter that... [26484 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/02/journey-into-spain-palaeolithic-cave-paintings-altamira",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/db4296279f4240844d21f55c68453a548aa10595/638_152_3151_2521/master/3151.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=1b018652e3853e6ad21dbd8571b1b9ab",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T04:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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