The Guinness World Record awards are all about "making the amazing official," and Kuwait is seriously in on that.  

From a record breaking firework display to an incredible bottle cap sculpture, the Gulf nation has claimed several Guinness World Record awards over the years. 

But this year's record breaker is a mural made of 149,000 newspaper and magazine clippings, depicting the face of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwait News Agency (Kuna) reported. 

The mural titled, Humanitarian Leader is 2 meters high and 24 meters wide.

It took 2 years to complete and was made by 122 students from the Sabah Al Nasser Al Sabah high school.

In 2012, the country broke the record for the biggest firework display in the world, complete with 77,282 firework projectiles.

The display marked the 50th anniversary of Kuwait's national Constitution.   

The largest bottle cap sculpture award was won in 2015, on Kuwait's national day (celebrated on February 25). 

The sculpture consisted of 147,008 bottle caps, collected over a period of two years by Fatma Yousef Al Fadli and a team of volunteers.

Once the caps had been collected, Fatma, her family, friends and the team of volunteers built the 5.6 meter high and wide globe shaped sculpture, which was designed by Fatma Al Tamimi.

More recently in January 2017, another entry was made when Gulf Bank's Al-Danah prize draw was awarded for being the 'biggest annual draw event' in the world.

Whenever news comes out from the UAE these days, it's usually about renewable energy, and it's either from Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

But Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) is not one to be left behind, with it's smart and green mosque being the first in the country, Khaleej Times reported. 

The mosque itself is not new, but is rather being refurbished. It's an old mosque in the Muairidh area. 

Dr Hisham Al Refaei Al Mansuri, the supervisor of the project, explained how it works: "The speakers of the mosque turn on automatically the moment the Imam stands on the carpet for leading prayers, and later turn off at the end of the prayer."

The lights are solar powered and also turn on and off automatically, depending on the time of prayer and the number of worshipers. The air-conditioning works similarly, and modifies its temperature to accommodate the weather changes in the UAE. 

The water in external tanks will also be monitored by solar panels, and will be recycled and purified in order to curb waste. Rainwater will also be collected and used for irrigation purposes. 

The renovation was a collaboration between 25 charity associations and is expected to save water and power worth AED 10,650 ($2,900) every year. 

The complete renewal cost AED 270,000 (≈$74,000).

This is not the first smart mosque in the UAE, but it is the greenest. In 2014, a mosque in Jumeirah became the first to have QR -aka Quick Response- codes, which allowed people to access information about its history, prayer timings, as well as lectures offered by the mosque at all times. 

Here's hoping all mosques in the UAE will become more user and environmentally friendly.