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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": 445036,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "974b664e69a77dd9a5207c8aab900a15",
            "title": "Woman, 36, who vanished with her elderly mother for seven months before they were found is now charged with her murder",
            "description": "Lorna Nightingale, 70, was found dead at an address in Walthamstow, east London, on Thursday December 11.",
            "content": "A woman who vanished with her elderly mother for seven months before they were found has been charged with her murder.\nLorna Nightingale, 70, was found dead at an address in Walthamstow, east London, on Thursday December 11.\nMetropolitan Police arres... [1002 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15397597/Woman-vanished-elderly-mother-seven-months-charged-murder.html",
            "image": "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/12/18/23/104862709-0-image-m-33_1766100516148.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T23:29:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4aca9b1f6287a5f7a6dea911063bdb49",
                "name": "Daily Mail",
                "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e5a8540b1569d158bf03ce726cbf1aa8",
            "title": "Mum 'baffled' smacking children was legal as Wales reviews ban",
            "description": "A Welsh government review shows out-of-court education is preferred to prosecuting parents.",
            "content": "A mother-of-two says she is \"baffled\" that smacking a child was ever legal in Wales, nearly three years on from a ban being introduced.\nMari Ellis Dunning, 32, said she sought \"to meet my kids with compassion before anything else\".\nHundreds of parent... [3169 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q59q00w5wo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/e863/live/a8a7c920-dc2e-11f0-854f-613aec88e40b.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T22:55:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c0771bd19b19926ada87e020558e704b",
            "title": "Met spy Mark Jenner admits relationship was 'open secret'",
            "description": "A former Met Police officer who had a relationship with a woman he was spying on admits his behaviour was \"cruel\".",
            "content": "A former Met Police undercover officer has admitted his behaviour while spying on left-wing activists in London in the mid 1990s was \"cruel\" and \"accepted\" by his superiors.\nMark Jenner, whose cover name was Mark Cassidy, worked in a covert unit call... [3908 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvdxv3vv9yo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/b9f5/live/36229870-dc1b-11f0-bf92-e71a69808a96.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-18T22:23:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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