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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": 421356,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2eeb2fc8d04e6db47409d685a7dfd5a8",
            "title": "'PM battles for survival' and Rayner 'ready to go'",
            "description": "The political fallout from the Epstein files continues to dominate the papers.",
            "content": "\"PM battles for survival\" headlines Metro over Sir Keir Starmer's appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US. At the time of the appointment, it was public knowledge that Mandelson had maintained a friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Ep... [1981 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6w1e1e94do",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/1b64/live/e8f397b0-02f4-11f1-b7e1-afb6d0884c18.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T02:36:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "68feecf644a22a56ba8724bf734616a2",
            "title": "Number of homeless refugees in England soars, BBC has found",
            "description": "Analysis of government data shows numbers increased from 3,560 in 2021/22 to 19,310 in 2024/25.",
            "content": "There has been a five-fold increase in the number of refugee households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the last four years, the BBC has found.\nGovernment data for England showed a rise from 3,560 in 2021/22, to 19,310 in 2024/25.\nChar... [5733 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9y3n43192o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/18fe/live/6d223fd0-02c5-11f1-b5e2-dd58fc65f0f6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T00:05:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7667451d6ff02c376a50aa72313b1587",
            "title": "Trump waters down criticism of UK’s Chagos Islands deal after call with Starmer",
            "description": "US president says deal, which he previously described as act of ‘great stupidity’, was ‘best’ PM could make",
            "content": "Donald Trump has watered down his criticism of the UK’s plan to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, saying the deal was the “best” Keir Starmer could make.\nThe US president had described ceding sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory... [3169 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/trump-criticism-chagos-islands-starmer",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7cbe1d915e9249fb5f399238b4d807414534e342/203_0_2941_2352/master/2941.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=3d6c6ac0e26629be3cc05f9444826196",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T23:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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