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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": 450554,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "76e5415c8de1bf23c3495fdacf4b2c4a",
            "title": "Starmer must consider EU customs union",
            "description": "TUC general secretary urges Prime Minister to secure ‘the closest possible’ economic relationship with Europe",
            "content": "Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure from the unions to break Labour’s manifesto once again and take Britain back into the European Union’s customs union.\nPaul Nowak, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), urged the Prime Minister to... [2007 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/27/tuc-starmer-must-consider-eu-customs-union/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2025/12/27/TELEMMGLPICT000454421075_17668355440590_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq1d-EThnFMz4VUJj-oR83sb67C9CgvkW8--n06bvC8bU.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-27T12:19:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8cfb784b0b7eb65a30648e8903ae965e",
            "title": "‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app",
            "description": "Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world",
            "content": "When Natasha Walter first became curious about the birds around her, she recorded their songs on her phone and arduously tried to match each song with online recordings. After a friend recommended Merlin Bird ID, a free app, she tried it in her Londo... [5286 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/merlin-ai-assisted-birdsong-identifying-app-bird-species",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/33efd95d5d247c7af1362ae515bc0e0ed8d00875/333_0_3542_2835/master/3542.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=55c4dbee57a45fc9d7f54a246da5f0fd",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-27T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ab33cb7a3bfa73468df77b872c3d501e",
            "title": "Glasgow hospital launches inquiry after wrong body cremated",
            "description": "NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde apologises after error meant one family had no remains at a funeral",
            "content": "An investigation has been launched by a Glasgow hospital after an error led to the wrong body being cremated.\nThe mistaken release of the body by the hospital to the undertakers was only discovered after the funeral service and the cremation had take... [1596 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/27/glasgow-hospital-launches-inquiry-after-wrong-body-cremated",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ab0a19aeee742c4b4d8d0431f14cb53eabdbb56e/398_0_4524_3621/master/4524.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=d1ad3ad1fbda786e6aac36fe58472d30",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-27T11:48:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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