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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": 142442,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "bef1e4b64b56ce290b7d00444b297818",
            "title": "Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dead at 84",
            "description": "The two-time Democratic presidential hopeful remembered for powerful speeches died peacefully surrounded by loved ones, his family said.",
            "content": "US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84.\nMr Jackson, who died on Tuesday, local time, was a Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic ... [1301 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-17/civil-rghts-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-age-84/106356528",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/91dde4fd6f534e63ee5dcb05f7b01847?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=380&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T10:00:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "94bb8bbc2be586cec76c7bc20dc938e0",
            "title": "Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dies at 84",
            "description": "Jackson was an inspirational orator and civil rights champion, who sought the 1984 and 1988 Democratic presidential nominations.",
            "content": "Will Dunham\nFebruary 17, 2026 — 8:54pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\nCharismatic US civil... [6826 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-leader-and-us-presidential-candidate-dies-at-84-20260217-p5o36h.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.4537%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/52a7536f41d8e20e85c0a8dbfbaf89bd7fc598b0",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T09:54:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "65045958568caf3ea94d17e4238416e8",
                "name": "SMH.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.smh.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "01fae2ce9870da091ffb76041d5d991a",
            "title": "Five young people die in Spain apartment block fire",
            "description": "Firefighters say they do not know why the victims could not escape the blaze in the building's upper floor.",
            "content": "Five young people have died in a fire that broke out in a storage space in a residential block of flats in north-east Spain.\nResidents raised the alarm about the fire in a five-storey building in the small town of Manlleu, about 80km (50 miles) north... [879 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99jngpymyjo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7346/live/943276e0-0bd9-11f1-a1d1-ad8a455db465.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T08:48:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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