Definition of news headline in English:

1A heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine.

1. 1.1the news headlines The most important or prominent items of news in a newspaper or a broadcast news bulletin.
   the arrest made the news headlines

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I watch the news headlines every day and might catch parts of programmes during meals.
   • They hit the news headlines earlier in the year due to their meat plant involvement in the foot and mouth scare.
   • His face was everywhere—on the covers of all the newspapers and magazines, on billboards, and in the news headlines on the television.
   • The story finally hit the news headlines.
   • The issue has been with us for over 30 years but never has it dominated the news headlines day after day as it is doing now.
   • The rally was to remind people that opposing war and occupation is just as important now as when it isn't in the news headlines every day.
   • The same story was included in the news headlines on television.
   • As the news headlines of the past two weeks have shown, terrible things can happen to big companies.
   • He struggled to contain a coughing fit after he realised his blunder and then compounded it by giggling through the news headlines.
   • As the news headlines over the last 18 months testify, the country's major economic crisis has come to a head.