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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": 468582,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "aae6a211a876fc4c8f27c09fa4572ed2",
            "title": "Tory councils granted election delay as 4.5m denied vote",
            "description": "Local authority leaders insist they need to postpone polls in move branded an ‘attack on democracy’",
            "content": "Two Tory-led councils have been granted last-minute election delays under Labour plans that will leave 4.5 million people unable to vote.\nNorfolk and Suffolk councils both claimed that they would struggle to deliver frontline services and hold electi... [7933 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/22/keir-starmer-called-dictator-cancelling-local-elections-45m/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2026/01/22/TELEMMGLPICT000458456102_17690928189140_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T17:50:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "08c47b95bde286c5b24ea2ce0eb06a88",
            "title": "Pensioner killed in 'ritual sacrifice' was 'failed on every level', family says",
            "description": "Roger Leadbeater, 74, was stabbed multiple times by a woman who escaped from a mental health unit in what has been described as a \"barbaric\" attack.",
            "content": "The family of a pensioner killed in a \"ritual sacrifice\" by a woman who escaped from a mental health unit said authorities \"failed on every level\" to protect him.\nRoger Leadbeater, 74, was stabbed multiple times by Emma Borowy, 32, while walking his ... [3598 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.sky.com/story/pensioner-killed-in-ritual-sacrifice-was-failed-on-every-level-family-says-13497640",
            "image": "https://e3.365dm.com/26/01/1600x900/skynews-roger-leadbeater-sheffield_7142854.jpg?20260122171945",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T17:22:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "896bbd67b1fce1e7e97122b9a4345dab",
                "name": "Sky News",
                "url": "https://news.sky.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b0de5ec467c40c94b96620b7ef55f57a",
            "title": "Man in hospital after stabbing in Salford Quays violence over Syria conflict",
            "description": "As trouble continued for a second night on Manchester's Curry Mile, a man was stabbed in Salford Quays",
            "content": "As trouble continued for a second night on Manchester's Curry Mile, a man was stabbed in Salford Quays\nA man has been stabbed in Salford Quays last night during another flare-up over rising tensions in Syria.\nFollowing two successive nights of troubl... [2661 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man-hospital-after-stabbing-salford-33283035",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/article33283163.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/0_JSR_MEN_220126quays_03.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T16:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d747ad2c8a358a8ac802059a4e88a6a6",
                "name": "manchestereveningnews.co.uk",
                "url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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