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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": 144014,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5bc1b1d712ae3a0abb9c8f4d6d4fe3d7",
            "title": "Inside Ryan Wesley Routh's plan to kill Donald Trump and 'up",
            "description": "As Donald Trump arrived at a golf course in September 2024, a would-be assassin had already been lying in wait for almost 12 hours.",
            "content": "It was a sunny 31 degrees Celsius on US President Donald Trump's West Palm Beach golf course on September 15, 2024.\nThe private 27-hole course, just a few kilometres away from his Mar-a-Lago resort, was the first of his 16 golf courses.\nTrump was mid... [9754 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/ryan-wesley-routh-life-sentence-assassination-attempt/106310824",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/0da721c44b5eb13bc7c87d1e90f3f6e0?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1486&cropW=2641&xPos=0&yPos=138&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T05:03:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "06d0ac084c483586e077bca8379edf61",
            "title": "Indonesia's government directs education funds to meals program as teachers struggle on low wages",
            "description": "Temporary teachers in Indonesia paid low wages criticise a government decision to direct one third of yearly education funding to the president's flagship free meals program.",
            "content": "Read the story in Indonesian\nIndah Permata Sari could not hold back tears during a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta earlier this week.\nThe public primary school teacher from Cibitung, about 50 kilometres east of Jakarta, pleaded with the government t... [7227 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/indonesia-government-directs-education-funds-to-free-meals/106307002",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/dfd2f765ea8d90aebb90eaef57fb3274?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2268&cropW=4032&xPos=0&yPos=210&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T03:17:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d9429ea7a44b7fd6eb152b561ab54a17",
            "title": "French authorities sink tonnes of cocaine bound for Australia, then release suspects",
            "description": "French authorities intercept a ship carrying $213 million worth of cocaine bound for Australia, before releasing the vessel and its crew.",
            "content": "A legal grey area has emerged over who will investigate a suspected drug-smuggling vessel found carrying $213 million worth of cocaine bound for Australia.\nThe ship, crewed by 11 Honduran and Ecuadorian nationals, was intercepted by French armed forc... [4361 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/french-authorities-sink-five-tonnes-of-cocaine/106307438",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/4720215a15f00689afe7e38c7499f53d?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1080&cropW=1920&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T01:35:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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