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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": 420784,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c40cb46f3c8a5047cb5aa444691216ad",
            "title": "Nuneaton rape accused thought girl,12, was in her 20s, jury told",
            "description": "The girl is alleged to have been strangled in Nuneaton last July before she was raped.",
            "content": "An Afghan man accused of \"targeting\" and twice raping a 12-year-old girl believed she may have been aged in her early 20s, a jury has heard.\nAhmad Mulakhil, 23, assisted by an interpreter, also told police in two interviews last July that kissing and... [1595 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lg88pe7lpo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/b3bc/live/2964e570-fe12-11f0-8b92-eda60064978e.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-02T16:38:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7ca24a8177e2daf8c586bb41e138c604",
            "title": "Second woman alleging Epstein sent her to UK for Andrew encounter wants apology from king’s lawyers",
            "description": "Lawyers of woman said to be in her 20s at the time say she spent night with former prince at Royal Lodge in 2010",
            "content": "Lawyers for a second woman who alleges she was sent to the UK by Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with the then Prince Andrew have urged King Charles’s lawyers to issue a “real apology”.\nBrad Edwards, from the US law firm Edwards Henderson, pre... [3846 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/02/second-woman-alleging-epstein-sent-uk-andrew-encounter-wants-apology-king-lawyers",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8042c8b46feaf291918f57502313ded9209ffc0b/1764_0_2246_1797/master/2246.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=221bd795b02679cd2273c7902bfaa242",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-02T16:32:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "67f5c4ef451ed111ca33bacd207076cd",
            "title": "Worker crushed to death by farm machinery in Cornwall",
            "description": "The tragic incident happened in a field outside Truro",
            "content": "The tragic incident happened in a field outside Truro\nA farm worker was tragically crushed to death when he tried to hitch up a mini packer to a tractor in a cauliflower field, an inquest heard.\nAleksej Kleinov helped a colleague hitch up the mini pa... [5070 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/worker-crushed-death-farm-machinery-10789933",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.cornwalllive.com/article10790533.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/0_AIR_DCM_030720Greville_03.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-02T15:04:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "774a6f6d35c4eef31db7c62ea3448e82",
                "name": "Cornwall Live",
                "url": "https://www.cornwalllive.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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