New York Times Top Online Stories: Fri 11/12/10

The New York Times lead headline online early Friday morning says "Debt Plan Ideas Draw Scorn of Liberals and Tea Party." The paper says President Obama’s bipartisan debt-reduction commission has exposed fissures in both parties, underscoring the volatile nature of addressing the nation’s budget problems.

It says the new Congress will contain the highest number of political newcomers in decades.

The paper says the resistance to President Obama’s approach puts him at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners on fundamental issues of economic strategy.

The Times says hoping some of Twitter’s success will rub off on them, start-ups jostle to rent offices in the same San Francisco building.

It says human rights activists say confinements in mental hospitals appear to be on the rise because authorities are under pressure to nip social unrest in the bud.

And the most popular story lists the top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up