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Australia World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

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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 Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 144076,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "150e0fc94af50740baa09c3494745ca2",
            "title": "The gold toilet, the bags of cash and the corruption still stalking Ukraine",
            "description": "Ukraine has a history of corruption issues, but the latest allegations include close confidants of the president and many people want answers from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.",
            "content": "Under the cover of cold and gloomy darkness in Western Ukraine, Tymur Mindich, one of the country's most influential men, entered a black Mercedes S Class bound for Poland.\nDetectives were closing in, and this wealthy business magnate wanted out.\nBy ... [9413 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-06/latest-corruption-allegations-a-headache-for-zelenskyy/106048496",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/0532d05521dd1defc1ba10334c066f67?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=720&cropW=1280&xPos=0&yPos=51&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-06T04:06:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "031ccdcf7ac49d6c2a4eaf559d9d572f",
            "title": "2025 US National Security Strategy warns Europe faces 'civilisational erasure', does not mention AUKUS",
            "description": "The Trump administration releases a document saying its goal is to \"help Europe correct its current trajectory\", adding that it faces \"civilisational erasure\" due in part to \"mass migration\".",
            "content": "The Trump administration says the United States will seek to \"restore Europe's civilisational self-confidence and Western identity\" as part of a sweeping new strategy document that reframes the US's proposed role in world affairs.\nThe document, relea... [5507 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-06/trump-warns-europe-faces-civilisational-erasure/106109888",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/fe39fca11b7955d887dce4e2dabf91a6?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=144&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-06T03:01:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "43df7a4d030d6a3b11360cdaf80fa98d",
            "title": "From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story",
            "description": "Tāme Iti’s colourful memoir covers his decades-long fight for Indigenous rights in New Zealand and takes aim at ‘saboteurs’ in the government",
            "content": "There are so many ways to begin telling the story of Tāme Iti, arguably New Zealand’s most recognisable Māori rights activist, who was once branded a terrorist by the state and is now considered by many a national treasure.\nYou could begin with his f... [5578 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/from-terrorist-to-national-treasure-renowned-maori-activist-finally-tells-his-own-story",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f9ae11b6dad8776df76b5a3c7c6cdc568383072f/623_0_4275_3422/master/4275.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=70f9e9dc7afe233e61c2a151c1cd030c",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-05T23:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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