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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": 435740,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "dd1450c23546e53c208745c5f63687c7",
            "title": "Jon Ruben live court updates as summer camp sex offender learns his fate",
            "description": "Scout leader Ruben abused young boys and admitted to drugging his wife",
            "content": "A man who admitted drugging and sexually assaulting boys at a Leicestershire summer camp is being sentenced today - Friday, February 6.\nJon Ruben, 76, is appearing at Leicester Crown Court to learn his fate after pleading guilty to a string of seriou... [850 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/jon-ruben-live-court-updates-10799301",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.nottinghampost.com/incoming/article10394550.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/3_unnamed-2025-08-01T194803551.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T16:11:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1aff5703caa36fb9b6856a9aa07a7df2",
                "name": "Leicester Mercury",
                "url": "https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1e4915248470ac3fcda83fe32e445092",
            "title": "Serial killer Steve Wright sentenced to 40 more years for schoolgirl’s murder",
            "description": "Steve Wright admitted to abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering Victoria Hall, as well as attempting to kidnap Emily Doherty",
            "content": "A serial killer already serving a whole-life prison sentence for the murders of five women has been further sentenced to 40 years for the killing of Victoria Hall, 17, and the attempted kidnap of Emily Doherty, 22, in 1999.\nSteve Wright took Hall’s l... [4046 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/06/serial-killer-steve-wright-sentenced-murder-schoolgirl",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a137989748bdf47df2d4a3df2f71c5855752f706/0_111_475_380/master/475.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=ed6f280e59b6328575a67cfe502d072c",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T16:06:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "779d57e2b1b477a2323635d4c82119bb",
            "title": "Sack Morgan McSweeney or face leadership challenge, Starmer told",
            "description": "Sir Keir Starmer must sack Morgan McSweeney or face a challenge to his leadership, Labour rebels have warned.",
            "content": "Labour MP Karl Turner has sparked another extraordinary war of words with one of his former colleagues.\nMr Turner has called on Sir Keir Starmer to sack Morgan McSweeney or face a leadership challenge, and been highly critical of No 10 in recent week... [7918 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/02/06/politics-latest-news-keir-starmer-lord-mandelson-epstein/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2026/02/06/TELEMMGLPICT000461220258_17703744199790_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqyBQSM7W3TfwBviL2F2h2i_4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Live",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T15:31:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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