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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": 151776,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f1da6fdd72b683b6fa9d038315b8a72e",
            "title": "Montana ski resort fire witnesses recall how the tragic blaze unfolded",
            "description": "As the resort town of Crans-Montana reels from the news of a tragic fire at a New Year's Eve party, a witness recalls hearing screams and seeing people covered in blood in the aftermath of the bar blaze.",
            "content": "As the resort town of Crans-Montana reels from the news of a tragic fire at a New Year's Eve party, a witness has recalled hearing screams and seeing people covered in blood in the aftermath of the bar blaze.\nAround 40 people are believed dead and 11... [4326 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-02/how-crans-montana-ski-resort-fire-unfolded/106194322",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/fe0ed837a8b87bc907d6dc4d6d371c76?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2780&cropW=4942&xPos=0&yPos=264&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T05:28:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fdce49628feb673aab797bc362719f9d",
            "title": "Experience: My friend turned out to be my long-lost sister",
            "description": "We were colleagues, had both been put up for adoption and were from the same place – but the paperwork said we weren’t related. Then a DNA test changed everything",
            "content": "I grew up in a small town in Connecticut. I always knew I was adopted: my mum told me that, as well as her, I had my “tummy mummy”. I was adopted from the Dominican Republic. My mum there was called Julianna, and she and my dad gave me up for adoptio... [3785 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/02/experience-found-out-friend-long-lost-sister",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fbdf554bee9979fd2eeb538e6dd787eb6374771/551_0_3333_2667/master/3333.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=a7ad7c1535c1a365f0712b410fd01672",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "78bf95884b2b1cff3f96298b8883dbd7",
            "title": "Strike a pose: vogue balls go mainstream in New Zealand",
            "description": "Led by Māori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington’s national museum",
            "content": "In a large gallery at New Zealand’s national museum in Wellington, a 600-strong crowd cheers ecstatically as a group of fabulously dressed performers take to the stage.\nIn impossibly high heels, the predominantly Māori and Pasifika (Indigenous people... [4736 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/02/strike-a-pose-vogue-balls-go-mainstream-in-new-zealand",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3b7db07c39e7c0907e3a9a5ed5a5c691ee053b3f/906_835_4553_3642/master/4553.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=285ece7df09c8d87bd36ad0b07c87c68",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-02T04:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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