Football oracle Paul the Octopus dies in his sleep

Octopus Paul fixes the spanish box during his oracle for the semifinal match at the World Cup in South Africa between Germany and Spain in the SeaLife Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, on Tuesday.

Octopus Paul holds on to the German box in the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany during an earlier match. But Paul has now voted for Spain.

An Indian artist puts the finishing touches to a sand sculpture ahead of the Fifa World Cup final match between Spain and the Netherlands, depicting a football covered with an octopus in Bhubaneswar, India. Spain will face the Netherlands at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday.

Emirati singer Abdullah Belkhair wants to buy Paul the psychic octopus who predicted with uncanny accuracy the 2010 World Cup match results in South Africa. According to Jordanian news portal Al Sawsana, Abdullah is prepared to give $40,000 (Dh146,890) for the resident of Sea Life aquarium in the western German city of Oberhausen. Paul got all of his eight predictions right, seven of them pertaining to Germany's matches and one about the winner, Spain. Abdullah is considered one of the UAE's finest singers with a strongly traditional performing style.