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": 524256,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ac4b651ae99a9c8a13ccb86660e241b4",
            "title": "Man racially abused woman during Walsall rape, court hears",
            "description": "John Ashby, 32, denies rape, intentional strangulation, robbery and religiously aggravated assault.",
            "content": "A man subjected a stranger to racist and anti-Muslim abuse as he raped her in her home, a court has been told.\nJohn Ashby, 32, of no fixed address, is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court accused of rape, intentional strangulation, robbery and religiou... [2831 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0rx8kdegeo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/4d0a/live/13976350-fad2-11f0-a21a-e9b091602ead.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T19:50:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a8407be618387448bf363b2207b04ffc",
            "title": "Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans",
            "description": "Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create \"a clear legal requirement for schools\".",
            "content": "The government has said it will introduce a legal ban on smartphones in schools in England.\nEducation minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told the House of Lords on Monday that the government would table an amendment to its landmark Children's Wellbeing a... [2690 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7vd6gpq1o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/30ac/live/fd65dd70-3cd8-11f1-8106-cb440797df0d.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T19:02:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b92bdacadf8c69ae2a7424386b806779",
            "title": "Today, it fell to parliament to hold Keir Starmer to account for the Mandelson scandal. It largely failed",
            "description": "On these occasions, MPs have a solemn duty to reflect the public’s anger and need for answers. A pity that so few seem able to fulfil it, says political commentator Toby Helm",
            "content": "Around the time of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to Washington in late 2024, Nigel Farage, our possible next prime minister, said that while he “might disagree with Mandelson on his politics” he was “a very intelligent man”, wh... [4972 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/20/parliament-keir-starmer-mandelson-scandal",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/317a480b7bb24ff5423087e30e4c1db5173c24c5/0_0_6880_5504/master/6880.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=fa242e82a38397809fef23c06c5c1247",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T18:46:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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