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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": 498780,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "16c53c7ff8d3a485761f6dc4448baed2",
            "title": "No special favours for Lord Mandelson in police custody",
            "description": "How officers led former Labour grandee from his home and brought him in for questioning",
            "content": "Lord Mandelson may have spent years at the top table of government, but following his arrest he would have been treated the same as any other suspect brought in for questioning.\nThe former business secretary and ambassador to the US was detained at h... [3170 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/23/no-special-favours-for-lord-mandelson-in-police-custody/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2026/02/23/TELEMMGLPICT000466234631_17718754395640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqxE6WYbzRGIq7DYNoS4-zikZSrV3ZYEdOqrDGP0mf7Xk.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T07:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5cdb66b50c6a9754d5fcb12748ec313f",
            "title": "Victims ‘devastated’ by train CCTV failures that allowed sex offenders to go untraced",
            "description": "Sex offenders on trains are escaping justice because of serious issues with CCTV on the rail network - BBC investigation.",
            "content": "Sex offenders on trains are escaping justice because of serious issues with CCTV on the rail network, a BBC investigation has revealed.\nOne woman who was sexually assaulted on a train told us she was \"devastated\" to be told that police could not trac... [6844 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6746rydro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/c29a/live/9c88efd0-114d-11f1-9120-a910fc22c6ac.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T06:00:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3824acc5b6cd7245c76e4d4d8179ebb9",
            "title": "Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK",
            "description": "Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire",
            "content": "Lincolnshire’s Reform party mayor, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, has courted the head of an American oil and gas dynasty in the hope of bringing fracking to the county, the Guardian can reveal.\nEgdon Resources, a British subsidiary of the US fracker Heyco Ene... [7781 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/24/reform-uk-mayor-andrea-jenkyns-us-oil-gas-executive-fracking-lincolnshire",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad7987e31c64bef412c9f94d8d326fb610c1aa64/292_0_3426_2741/master/3426.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=ec5c4bcc9ce2456b027fed8a68f42f28",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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