Reporter faked Gates talk

Microsoft said Wednesday a Norwegian journalist fabricated an interview with Bill Gates.
The interview, printed in the Norwegian magazine Mann and top-selling Swedish tabloid daily Aftonbladet, was "totally fake," said Eirik Lae Solberg, spokesman for Microsoft Norway.
In the four-page interview entitled "Big Bill," author Bjoern Benkow claimed he spoke to Gates during a two-hour commercial flight in Europe.
Gates was quoted as saying in the article that he never carries more than a "dime" in his pocket and that he makes $1 bets with...
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