A marketing guru feels the high rate of divorce in the country is responsible for skyrocketing property prices.

At a real estate summit Li Guangdou said 10 million couples were entering into matrimony each year. Li said "Almost half of them end up with divorces and separate houses, which is what increased the property prices."

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A cat was trapped in an ATM in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, for at least 12 hours and escaped on its own after all efforts to free the animal failed, the Yangtse Evening News reports.

The cat was found trapped in a narrow crack between the ATM and the wall. The bank staff "dissembled" the top of the machine to free the cat, but the ATM seemed too solid for the cat to break through.

The staff left for the day, hoping to find another solution the next day, but to their surprise found the cat gone a few hours later.

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Portland police said a man handed an apologetic robbery note to an employee at a FedEx Kinko's store, then waited for police to arrive. Employee Paul Rhoney said the note said: "This is a robbery, I'll wait outside for police, sorry."

Police Detective Mary Wheat said responding officers found the 46-year-old man outside the store Tuesday morning and took him into custody.

Wheat said no robbery charges will be pursued because the man did not have a weapon and didn't carry out a robbery. Police believe he simply wanted to go to jail.

The man was taken to the Multnomah County Jail for investigation of initiating a false report.

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Montenegro's only hippopotamus escaped from the mountainous Adriatic nation's zoo during floods this week.

Zoo manager Davor Mujovic says the two-ton female called Nikica broke out of her cage and swam away after seasonal floods hit the zoo just outside the Montenegrin capital Podgorica.

He says "She remains at large, but one of the guards is keeping an eye on her and is feeding her daily."

The hippo found a dry spot a mile away from the zoo as shelter from cold flood waters. Mujovic said zoo guards would have to wait until the water recedes to try to lure the animal back to its enclosure with food.

In its native Africa, the world's third largest mammal on land is considered aggressive and dangerous. But zoo owner Nikola Pejovic said Nikica was not a threat to people.

"People like her, and she is used to people, villagers are bringing her fresh hay," he said.