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": 155408,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7e081630a76d32d248736317ae3dc7fb",
            "title": "US President, Xi Jinping continue US-China summit with discussions on Iran, trade and Taiwan",
            "description": "US President Donald Trump’s trip to China to meet with Xi Jinping continues on Friday, with the two leaders to meet at the Zhongnanhai compound, where discussions are expected to focus on the war in Iran, Xi’s plan for Taiwan and Trump’s tariffs. Follow the news and commentary via live blog updates.",
            "content": "As the two leaders made their way into the meeting earlier, Trump could be heard asking Xi whether he had brought other presidents and prime ministers to the Chinese leadership compound Zhongnanhai. Xi appeared to shake his head in response, but his ... [5391 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/trump-china-visit-live-us-president-xi-jinping-continue-us-china-summit-with-discussions-on-iran-trade-and-taiwan-20260514-p5zx2i.html?post=p5afcr",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.09899971954753668%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_109/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/6aa560a36209120ee487d7aec96e6cd884c7737d",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T05:17:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a544f7cc8510785b5351ed8351305493",
            "title": "How to kill off your lawn and plant a native garden instead",
            "description": "Many of us are looking to create a native garden as a lower maintenance, more sustainable and often cheaper alternative.",
            "content": "Lawns are a lot of work and not everybody's idea of a visually appealing backyard.\nMany of us are looking to create a native garden as a lower maintenance, more sustainable and often cheaper alternative.\n\"Lawns are what we call high input with low ou... [5007 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/how-to-replace-your-lawn-with-native-plants/106642258",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/2cf052c09b49273394d276d0337337a2?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=439&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T05:03:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "da88fba25b75359b2c83db2a5eebaf42",
            "title": "Breakthrough in teacher pay stand-off with new offer",
            "description": "The state government has been working on a revised offer to the state’s public school teachers, with pay rises of up to 32 per cent over four years.",
            "content": "The state government is hopeful a new pay offer to public school teachers that would deliver wage rises of up to 32 per cent over four years will lead to a deal to avert further strike action.\nA meeting of the Australian Education Union’s Victorian B... [1131 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/breakthrough-in-teacher-pay-standoff-with-new-offer-20260515-p5zxdi.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2648%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_110/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/3086d71d28e2badb1f315a6f1c7f719663a576dd",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T04:30:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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