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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": 435742,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e3090b744d03bc0110cdbac2e4afa6e6",
            "title": "Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year as police say tech firms must act",
            "description": "Figures for England and Wales show there were 51,672 offences for child sexual exploitation and abuse online in 2024",
            "content": "Online child sexual abuse in England and Wales has surged by a quarter within a year, figures show, prompting police to call for social media platforms to do more to protect young people.\nBecky Riggs, the acting chief constable of Staffordshire polic... [4285 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/11/online-child-sexual-abuse-surges-by-26-percent-in-year-as-police-say-tech-firms-must-act",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/915eab9bb0e2ccfb48572ff8b5fa204e56145492/0_0_5000_4000/master/5000.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=252dd068f48296466d96dac4da42f6f1",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-11T00:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f9a018998ab88ee62e76fa7a00697a16",
            "title": "Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits",
            "description": "After receiving a speeding ticket, Evan Davis explores why so many people have broken 20mph limits across the country.",
            "content": "I like to think of myself as a law-abiding driver. But it was not a total shock earlier this year when I received one of those official notifications in the post, informing me that I had been caught exceeding a speed limit (driving out of Wandsworth ... [8923 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e94pe6w9ro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/3fab/live/f1235620-d520-11f0-8c06-f5d460985095.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-11T00:01:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "31bd0c7867e6548006943981dc78e7d1",
            "title": "Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights",
            "description": "Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration",
            "content": "Keir Starmer and Europe’s hardline governments risk creating a “hierarchy of people” as they seek to address migration by curbing fundamental rights, Europe’s most senior human rights official has said.\nMichael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s com... [5503 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-hierarchy-of-people-constraining-human-rights",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9bc1f1328ad1f3a8de266d36727c46183715f0e0/720_0_7200_5760/master/7200.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=1678352c7ad2297b4959be00da594b80",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-10T23:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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