Sunday's world record is not the first involving dates. In September 2008, the certificate for the largest plate of dates in the world was awarded to Rakan Maktoum Al Qubaisi, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Fourth Liwa Festival.



haikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, receives the Guinness World Records certificate for cultivating date palms from Jenny Karampoiki at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.



The UAE has been officially recognised as the leading cultivator of date palms in the world with 42 million trees, it was announced on Sunday. To celebrate this honour, we look at other world records that have been broken in the country.



Another record breaking feat for the capital came in February 2008, with the sale of the most expensive car plate in the world. License plate No. 1 was bought at auction for a staggering Dh52.2 million by Abu Dhabi businessman Saeed Al Khouri, breaking th