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United Kingdom Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Nation 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 477486,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "47c5f7c9dbac36253a24c2a474a24a57",
            "title": "Woman imprisoned and forced to work for Tewkesbury mother for more than 25 years",
            "description": "Unnamed woman held against her will by Amanda Wixon, who beat her and shaved her head",
            "content": "A woman was forced to work as a slave in a “Dickensian” imprisonment for a mother and her 10 children for more than a quarter of a century in a British market town.\nThe woman, who is now in her 40s and cannot be named, lived off scraps, could not lea... [5743 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/21/woman-imprisoned-and-forced-to-work-for-tewkesbury-mother-for-more-than-25-years",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/14396ade84d6f73cf139f7301671dd7edc0738b6/37_0_503_402/master/503.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=2b9fc303599ec536e14fbd6c71b5bf5e",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T19:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4f3bad20a8c01ac436278854500f00e7",
            "title": "‘It was a very lucky escape’: blind man who fell on to tracks calls for rail travel improvements",
            "description": "Abdul Eneser blames his fall on the lack of tactile paving on the platform and was awarded £18,000 by Network Rail",
            "content": "When Abdul Eneser slipped off the side of the platform at Manchester Piccadilly station, he lay terrified with no option but to listen as the rumbles of a freight train drew closer.\nEneser, who is blind, had fallen owing to a lack of tactile paving, ... [2735 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/21/blind-man-who-fell-on-to-the-tracks-at-manchester-piccadilly-wins-payout",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8848d46daa5e67402fab372a12a01da600ff9b26/1253_294_4758_3808/master/4758.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=5ae8f4f5be6534d0cc1848396949af1f",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T18:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e7d6efb7cc3321844b7aef1e88d025bb",
            "title": "Kemi fails to resist the cheap shot as she backs Trump on Chagos Islands",
            "description": "Tory leader tries to score points by siding with out-of-control president hellbent on destroying Nato and Europe",
            "content": "It had been a relatively quiet night. Apart from Donald Trump giving a long, rambling press conference in which he offered only a few mild insults to his supposed allies and posting mockups of Canada and Greenland covered in the Stars and Stripes. Ap... [5468 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/21/kemi-fails-to-resist-the-cheap-shot-as-she-backs-trump-on-chagos-islands",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e385184b6b8a8acd6eacb08ce3ce03edbe7cfd30/1754_665_4850_3880/master/4850.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=0feca00650603156a7257771a5bcf701",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T18:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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