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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": 425480,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "46e2023c7fbda39a96149b55e316bdae",
            "title": "Asylum seeker sentenced to at least 29 years for murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte",
            "description": "Deng Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver at a train station in Walsall in October 2024.",
            "content": "CCTV a large part of prosecution's case\nThroughout the two-week trial, the prosecution also showed numerous pieces of CCTV, although none was available on the railway station platform itself.\nMajek repeatedly insisted he was not the figure in the foo... [7009 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn0kpj99kegt",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/c57e/live/7af8ef90-fc3b-11f0-b385-5f48925de19a.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-30T13:47:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3bd030a66433c2ea3762a25a6cd475d4",
            "title": "Tracking shows eight sanctioned Russian tankers currently in English Channel",
            "description": "Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.",
            "content": "What’s happening in Niger?\nPeter Mwai and Thomas Copeland\nBBC Verify\nWe’ve been reporting today that Niger’s military leader has claimed Islamist militants, backed by the presidents of France, Benin and Ivory Coast, were behind yesterday’s attack on ... [6719 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8yw4y7dw9t",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/5d46/live/e29f08a0-fdd5-11f0-9972-d3f265c101c6.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-30T12:57:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fccd7a3d364fbe721f93b592aec4523d",
            "title": "Live: M5 traffic stopped as 'police incident' unfolds",
            "description": "M5 traffic is building",
            "content": "All traffic has been stopped on the M5 this lunchtime because of a 'police incident'.\nThe temporary hold is ongoing in both directions of the M5.\nThe police incident is happening between Junction 19 near the A369, Martcombe Road, in Portishead, and J... [464 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-m5-traffic-stopped-police-10786467",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.devonlive.com/incoming/article10786543.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/0_image-18.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-30T12:46:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "153a3550d38b03983f41ea5086ae6be9",
                "name": "bristolpost.co.uk",
                "url": "https://www.bristolpost.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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