This is the top headline on the frontpage of the CNN website:

The headline reads "Slaughtered for being single" and shows a subdued woman in a black headscarf.

If you read the actual story you will notice thats its about the chaos and criminal activities that have run rampant in the city of Basra, focusing in particular on the confessions of a captured murderer in the city. 

The woman on the front page of the CNN website is not even mentioned until almost the very end of the story.

If CNN simply wanted to run a story on the havoc of a lawless city like Basra they could have easily done that, but why make the headline "Slaughtered for being single" and show an image of a woman in a black headscarf? 

The headline and image do nothing but help to sensationalize the story. Apparently to CNN, a headline like "murder and crime abounds in lawless Basra," could not possibly be as interesting as the current headline referring to what is by all accounts an isolated case in a city deep in the throes of a larger national civil war. 

It is because of headlines and images like these (and Iraqi: 'I killed her with a machine gun'), that there is such rampant xenophobia against Islam and Arabs.

To state there is lawlessness and widespread criminal activity in Basra is fine, if not entirely unexpected, but to lead with an image and recounting of a woman being "slaughtered," as indicative of the entire situation in Basra is nothing but pure, unadulterated sensationalism.